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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you do not need to monitor emissions from permitted medium combustion plant that are used for back-up generation.
Environment Agency enforcement position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during utility works repairing water infrastructure mains and connections.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using temporary collection points in local communities for householders’ waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including August 2025.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store sealed containers of food waste.
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).
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
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