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How a designated collection facility (DCF) must manage its separately collected WEEE.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
Standard rules to operate household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment and asbestos storage.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in water discharge activities.
Standard rules to operate non hazardous household waste amenity site at a specified location.
When you can exceed the burning and storage limits in waste exemption D7 to burn trees and plants affected by disease or pests in the open.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Working in partnership to shape future plans and benefits
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
More information on our screening work, and its relevance to the siting of a GDF
Guidance for NDA employees on the user of the site and Intelligent Client in relation to Nuclear Safety, Security and Environmental Protection
This document sets out principles and guidance for the assessment of ionising radiation doses to the public from authorised discharges.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
How the Environment Agency regulates and monitors Blaydon Quarry landfill.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can collect, store and upgrade biogas from on-farm manure and slurry lagoons without an environmental permit.
When you do not need an environmental permit for an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant.
An overview of the UK regulatory framework for all aspects of radiological and civil nuclear safety across the UK.
View the permit issued for Alexandra Dock 1, Bootle under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
How to meet the rules in your permit if you use mobile plant to spread waste to land for agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
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