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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 when you can burn or incinerate waste following an animal disease outbreak or infection identified by the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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 using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Developing new waste management capability and opportunities to work group-wide as part of a broader integration programme to underpin the NDA’s and nation’s strategy of a more joined-up approach to waste management.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in February 2024.
Environment Agency enforcement position on dewatering bentonite slurry waste from secant piling or the construction of retaining and containment walls.
How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.
LLWR’s Parent Body Organisation (PBO) has transformed the low level radioactive waste industry since its inception in 2008 – after first resolving an immediate UK capacity crisis at the Repository.
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 a facility with a treatment capacity less than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat mixed uPVC plastic and rubber from windows and doors.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste coded 16 03 06 when this code is not listed in your permit or waste exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of final effluent from sewage treatment works to fill empty petrol tanks during construction or maintenance at petrol stations.
How a designated collection facility (DCF) must manage its separately collected WEEE.
Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Environment Agency enforcement position on the registration of small producers under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 as amended.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
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