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What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
How the Digital waste tracking helpdesk will use and manage your personal data.
Standard rules SR2015 No 18: metal recycling, vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling facility.
SR2015 No 3: metal recycling and WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow and event duration monitoring.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Our dedicated Waste Services teams deliver and develop integrated waste management capabilities, support national strategies, and manage customer and supplier relationships across the waste lifecycle.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of dry cleaning.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Standard rules to allow storage of wastes to be used in land treatment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
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