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Guidance on developing monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.
MCERTS performance standard is for laboratories undertaking radioanalytical testing of water.
Guidance on the regulation of non-nuclear radioactive substances activities under Environmental Permitting Regulation 2010.
Sets out the good arrangements and considerations that are expected from an operator.
Standard rules to operate inert and excavation waste transfer station.
Standard rules for the storage and use of up to 100ktd of waste for construction (existing permits only).
Environment Agency regulatory position on temporary storage of cans of waste paint collected through manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer take-back schemes.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using waste clay in the construction of slurry lagoons or irrigation/winter storage reservoirs.
DSS Part A: High Level Requirements and DSS Part B: Technical Specification
More information on our screening work, and its relevance to the siting of a GDF
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
Process for assessing the acceptability of a candidate nuclear power station design.
Understand the European Community (EC) directive 2006/12/EC6 on waste (Waste Framework Directive).
How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The purpose of this document is to provide a best method approach to sampling and analysing emissions from enclosed landfill gas flares.
Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
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