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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste coffee pods.
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 regulatory position allowing operators time to get additional technical competence qualifications.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
Standard rules for unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction as a deposit for recovery operation.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and shred electronic storage media containing confidential or sensitive material for data security and destruction only without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread biochar (waste code 19 01 18) to benefit land.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
How to get support if you have to report packaging data or pay a fee under EPR for packaging
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.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
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