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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 monitoring fugitive emissions from shredding waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
When you can store and treat asphalt waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation, installation or mobile plant from the Environment Agency.
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 storing lead acid vehicle batteries, cable and gas cylinders at HWRCs when the correct waste codes are not in your permit.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in February 2024.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 500 tonnes on site at any time.
Work out the toxic equivalency factors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to calculate their concentration.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
DSS Part A: High Level Requirements and DSS Part B: Technical Specification
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in March 2024.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can collect, store and upgrade biogas from on-farm manure and slurry lagoons without an environmental permit.
Documents relating to the possible links between emissions from municipal waste incinerators and effects on health.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on temporary storage of cans of waste paint collected through manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer take-back schemes.
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