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The Environment Agency provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations it considered may be suitable for an exemption.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
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.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
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