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View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for September 2024
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules SR2015 No 5: household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station (no building)
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.
The T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
The U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dewater and deposit silt from SUDS without an environmental permit.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for automatic water sampling equipment.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Dstl’s incinerator facility near Salisbury provides a specialist disposal solution for hazardous or high security waste materials.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting separately collected household packaging waste at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) when 15 01 waste codes are not in your environmental permit.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
This guidance is to understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/12/EC on waste, as it relates to permitting waste operations in England and Wales.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
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