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The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
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 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 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.
Putting geological disposal into context
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
SR2010 No 12: treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
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