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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 BSI PAS 100 or PAS 110 compliant material which does not meet the plastics limit in the relevant resource framework.
Environment Agency regulatory position on treating microbiological laboratory waste by autoclaving before it’s removed from a site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you do not need to monitor emissions from permitted medium combustion plant that are used for back-up generation.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
The requirements for packaging HHGW
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat food waste from food preparation and consumption at the same premises the food was served and consumed.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
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 discharging waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into a wastewater treatment works where your permit contains a POPs exclusion.
How a designated collection facility (DCF) must manage its separately collected household WEEE.
Work out the toxic equivalency factors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to calculate their concentration.
Publishing dates for batteries data.
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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