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The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Guidance to applicants on how the Environment Agency will consider air quality impact assessments from group 3 metals stack emissions from municipal waste incinerators and waste wood co-incinerators.
The appropriate measures for the general management of a regulated facility with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
How the Environment Agency reviews the impact of climate change on the Thames Estuary and updates planned work and timescales.
How the Environment Agency will achieve their sustainability ambitions, including to create and improve habitat as part of Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100).
When you can collect and treat non-hazardous waste from different sites on one premises before sending it to an authorised waste management facility.
Information for farmers about inspections the Environment Agency carries out on pig and poultry farm structures, records and, maintenance and management plans.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
Guidance for fish passes where existing obstructions prevent the safe passage of eel and elver travelling up stream.
The T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Standard rules for temporary storage on a flood plain of a main river.
Standard rules to operate inert and excavation waste transfer station with treatment 250kte.
These are the emissions limits and appropriate measures for monitoring emissions to air and water for regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
The rules businesses must follow when moving mercury and products containing mercury between Great Britain, the EU and Northern Ireland.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station.
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