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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
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 store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste glass containing other non-hazardous wastes.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
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 to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your non-UK suppliers’ household electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces as defined in the amended waste EEE regulations mu…
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
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.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
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