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All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, de-packaging and dismantling unused waste COVID-19 test kits at premises owned by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
How to analyse samples taken to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
When you can store and dewater street sweeping waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for June 2024
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
SR2015 No 3: metal recycling and WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
For operators of a small metal recycling facility accepting no more than 5,000 tonnes of waste each year with no more than 100 tonnes on site at any one time.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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