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How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
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