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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 for the treatment of waste wood.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
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 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 to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Where and how to contact Nuclear Waste Services
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
How to get support if you have to report packaging data or pay a fee under EPR for packaging
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, depolluting and dismantling of waste motorcycles when holding SR2021 No 12: Vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
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 waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
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