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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept shredded electronic storage media at permitted hazardous waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sites where waste code 19 02 04* is not on your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
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).
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
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).
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing and cutting waste rubber conveyor belts for reuse: RPS 305
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
The requirements for packaging LHGW
When you do not need an environmental permit for an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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