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Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Environment Agency regulatory position for local authorities, or contractors acting on their behalf, who operate household waste recycling centres and, or bulky waste collection services from households.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
This page contains Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications and Guidance for waste packages destined for geological disposal.
Environment Agency charging scheme for waste (miscellaneous), including all amendments up to and including April 2024.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
Guidance on sampling methods and methodologies for materials facility operators, including information about sampling areas, equipment, schedules and compliance
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.
Environment Agency enforcement position on the temporary storage of waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) without an environmental permit.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to issue evidence, meet and report on recovery and recycling targets and apply protocols on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
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