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Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
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 carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.
Details the work involved in producing our Environmental Safety Case and its role in securing Permit approval for the LLWR Site.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
Standard rules for discharges to ground of 1.5 cubic metres per day via a shallow infiltration system not built to British Standard BS6297.
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.
Standard rules to allow the operator to undertake mining waste operations on the site of a mine or quarry.
View the application submitted by Donald Ward Limited for Donald Ward Limited, Nottingham.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
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