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The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for September 2024
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
The U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can use unbound municipal IBAA in construction activities without an environmental permit.
View the permit issued for Ellesmere Port Incinerator, South Wirral under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
The T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
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