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Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How to inspect waste, check paperwork, and sample and test the waste you accept.
When the Environment Agency will not require you to get a permit to carry out certain activities that they regulate.
Mining waste permits, waste management plans and extra requirements you must comply with if you have a mining waste facility.
List of exemptions for disposing of waste, for example depositing or burning it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.
You need approval from the Environment Agency before you deposit waste over completed cells that have permanently stopped taking waste.
General management appropriate measures and the process they apply to.
We’re seeking views on 3 new standard rules sets and revisions to existing standard rules sets.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
List of exemptions for using waste, for example as building material, fuel or fertiliser. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
List of exemptions for treating waste, for example sorting or processing it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
Appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation, transfer and handling.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Low risk waste activities that the Environment Agency has agreed do not need a permit.
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