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The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position on monitoring fugitive emissions from shredding waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Work out the toxic equivalency factors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to calculate their concentration.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Documents relating to the possible links between emissions from municipal waste incinerators and effects on health.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and dewater sludge produced by treating water pollution from abandoned coal mines.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat mixed municipal waste by aerobic digestion at the place the waste was produced.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can collect, store and upgrade biogas from on-farm manure and slurry lagoons without an environmental permit.
The Environment Agency has provided this low risk waste position (LRWP) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Case studies of completed measures or measures being progressed in river basin districts from 2015.
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