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This guidance is to understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/12/EC on waste, as it relates to permitting waste operations in England and Wales.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for landspreading of sewage sludge and deployment form.
For operators of a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day and no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store sealed containers of food waste.
Actions companies need to take to export nuclear-related items.
How regulators determine fit and proper person status when you apply for approval as a compliance scheme or accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter.
What businesses need to do to import ‘relevant’ nuclear materials into the UK.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This programme will support development of technologies and techniques that may enable future UK access to medical radionuclides.
End of waste criteria for the production of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and shred electronic storage media containing confidential or sensitive material for data security and destruction only without an environmental permit.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
Standard rules for the accumulation and disposal of radioactive waste from the NORM industrial activity of oil and gas production.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and dismantle non-WEEE waste domestic gas meters.
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