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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.
The T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
The U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Standard rules permit and generic risk assessment for new and existing, low risk, stationary medium combustion plant.
The U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
The fundamental objective of radioactive substances regulation and the 10 regulatory principles we apply when carrying out our work.
This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Environment Agency's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
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