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Environment Agency regulatory position allowing operators 12 months to get additional qualifications if required, when moving to a new consolidated standard rules permit.
Work out the toxic equivalency factors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to calculate their concentration.
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…
Publishing dates for packaging data.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
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 discharging waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into a wastewater treatment works where your permit contains a POPs exclusion.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept shredded electronic storage media at permitted hazardous waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sites where waste code 19 02 04* is not on your permit.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
For a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day accepting no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
The requirements for packaging HHGW
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting separately collected household packaging waste at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) when 15 01 waste codes are not in your environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on burning waste particle board off-cuts (waste code 03 01 05) as a fuel in a small appliance.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
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