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Guidance for operators, test laboratories and equipment suppliers on the quality assurance of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).
All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
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.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
Performance standard for stack gas and landfill gas borehole emissions.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
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.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
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 a waste transfer station accepting construction, demolition and excavation waste.
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.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow and event duration monitoring.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
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