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This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
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.
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.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat food waste from food preparation and consumption at the same premises the food was served and consumed.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
SR2010 No 12: treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on how to classify excavated waste from street works and utility works when you cannot take samples before excavation.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with WEEE and waste regulations.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
The U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
If you comply with the requirements in this regulatory position statement (RPS) you do not need an environmental permit for the final use of asphalt waste containing coal tar in construction operations.
Guidance on interpreting the legislation on radioactive substances in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is gathering information to understand if the current Search Areas could be suitable to host a GDF.
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