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Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
How to comply with emission limit values (ELVs) for hydrogen combustion plant greater than 1 megawatt thermal input (MWth).
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
The T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
The T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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