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The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for May 2025
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat food waste from food preparation and consumption at the same premises the food was served and consumed.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing small-scale equipment for monitoring in a river and for associated equipment such as instrument cabinets located alongside.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
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