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Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on sampling methods and methodologies for materials facility operators, including information about sampling areas, equipment, schedules and compliance
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Where and how to contact Nuclear Waste Services
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can import UK origin naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste without a waste shipment consent.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
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