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How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, treating, and using excavated utilities wastes classified under RPS 298.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
The T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
SR2010 No 12: treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Standard rules SR2015 No 18: metal recycling, vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling facility.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recom…
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 SR2015 No 13: 25kte vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
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