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Rules for volunteers and waste sites on storing, transporting and accepting litter from voluntary litter collection.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
A methodology for testing protector geotextiles for their performance in specific site conditions.
Explains your permit conditions so you know how to comply with the conditions.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat food waste at the premises where the food was served and consumed without an environmental permit.
How to apply to become an authorised ship recycling facility and operate legally under the approval.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
This document sets out what you must do if you want to get accreditation from us to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
Standard rules for permits covering category 5 sealed radioactive sources.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
We work with organisations across the UK that produce radioactive waste.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of tyre-derived rubber materials.
Standard rules to store and transfer clinical waste and healthcare waste.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility at a specified site (existing permits only).
Environment Agency enforcement position on when a waste collection authority, or contractors working on their behalf, can store food waste.
Actions companies need to take to export nuclear-related items.
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