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UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
Standard rules for a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for biomethane produced from organic wastes in a landfill site or anaerobic digestion plant.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators time to get additional technical competence qualifications.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The requirements for packaging LHGW
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site 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.
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