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The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, de-packaging and dismantling unused waste COVID-19 test kits at premises owned by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
You must consider this guidance if you deal with surplus or waste food and drink.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using whole waste tyres in building construction, in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs, for fendering systems and planters.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can accept waste with codes that are not listed in your waste authorisation or the quality protocols.
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
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