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Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
The U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Standard rules SR2015 No 8: 75kte household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with asbestos storage.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recom…
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Environment Agency's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
Standard rules to operate an inert and excavation waste transfer station with treatment (existing permits only).
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
The T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
The T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate, and the deployment form.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Guidance on the application of the regulations and the administrative procedures that will be used by government in reaching justification decisions.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
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