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Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Vehicle seizure notice for SF18 JYV.
All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Standard rules SR2015 No 14: 75kte metal recycling site.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
How to report a business or organisation that is not separating or collecting recyclable waste in line with the Simpler Recycling rules.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
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 for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
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).
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
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