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T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) authorised treatment facility at a specified location.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules SR2015 No 14: 75kte metal recycling site.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
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).
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