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View the application submitted by Suez Recycling And Recovery UK Ltd for Darwen Resource Recovery Centre, Darwen.
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Environment Agency regulatory position on scattering or burying pet ash at a pet cemetery which is registered with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
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.
When you can store and treat asphalt waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation, installation or mobile plant from the Environment Agency.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
View the application submitted by Blue Phoenix Limited for Tilbury IBA Facility, Tilbury.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
This position explains what we mean by “place” under the waste exemption system for farms, the storage of sewage sludge and linear networks.
View the application submitted by SF LHR LTD for SF LHR Ltd, Feltham.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Find out the energy efficiency requirements you must comply with, and how to comply, to operate under an environmental permit.
Information for farmers about inspections the Environment Agency carries out to prevent and control pollution, and check permits and licence conditions.
If you are developing a site within a coalfield area you may need to give additional consideration to the proposed drainage and infiltration.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
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.
View the application submitted by European Metal Recycling Limited for EMR Oldbury, West Bromwich.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
View the application submitted by Countrystyle Recycling Limited for Countrystyle Recycling, Sittingbourne.
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