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This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
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.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
The S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
The U12 exemption allows landscapers, farmers and growers to spread mulch as a protective covering onto land around trees, bushes or plants.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
The T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
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