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D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
Standard rules for unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction as a deposit for recovery operation.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
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.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
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.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
Getting to know the geology in your area
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
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