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Standard rules to operate mobile plant for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate, and the deployment form.
Standard rules SR2015 No 13: 25kte vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
The T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
The U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
This document sets out what you must do if you want to get accreditation from us to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
SR2015 No 21: 75kte materials recycling facility.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
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