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Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
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 open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
This page contains Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications and Guidance for waste packages destined for geological disposal.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, treating, and using excavated utilities wastes classified under RPS 298.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
When you can store and dewater street sweeping waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on the application of the regulations and the administrative procedures that will be used by government in reaching justification decisions.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
If you comply with the requirements in this regulatory position statement (RPS) you do not need an environmental permit for the final use of asphalt waste containing coal tar in construction operations.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat and dispose of invasive non-native plant material without an environmental permit.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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