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How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Guidance on sampling methods and methodologies for materials facility operators, including information about sampling areas, equipment, schedules and compliance
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
The requirements for packaging HHGW
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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing lead acid vehicle batteries, cable and gas cylinders at HWRCs when the correct waste codes are not in your permit.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
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