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Environment Agency enforcement position on when a waste collection authority, or contractors working on their behalf, can store food waste.
How a designated collection facility (DCF) must manage its separately collected WEEE.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can collect, store and upgrade biogas from on-farm manure and slurry lagoons without an environmental permit.
When you do not need an environmental permit for an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant.
How to manage soil health to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement for your landspreading mobile plant deployment.
LLWR’s Parent Body Organisation (PBO) has transformed the low level radioactive waste industry since its inception in 2008 – after first resolving an immediate UK capacity crisis at the Repository.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste coded 16 03 06 when this code is not listed in your permit or waste exemption.
How waste collectors should prioritise their collection services during extreme circumstances.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
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 storing waste coffee pods.
When you can use waste fire extinguishers to train people to fight fires.
Work out the toxic equivalency factors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to calculate their concentration.
Storage guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
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