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Standard rules to operate a clinical waste and healthcare waste transfer station at a specified location.
This section describes the range of mechanisms that control the use, reduction and cessation hazardous chemicals and priority substances.
Standard rules SR2009 No 2: low impact part A installation.
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.
Find out about discharge limits and controls of substances discharged from water treatment works.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
Water safety information advising how to stay safe while visiting our waterways.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
Environment Agency enforcement position for wetlands that receive treated final effluent discharged from water and sewerage company wastewater treatment works.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
Environment Agency regulatory position on heat treating waste plastic for reuse.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for the speciality organic chemicals sector.
These are waste minimisation, recovery and disposal appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
The additional appropriate measures for the general management of regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WTEE.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
RSR RGN2 provides an overview of the regulation of radioactive substances on nuclear sites.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land-spreading of sewage sludge and deployment form.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
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