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Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste glass containing other non-hazardous wastes.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Guidance on the application of the regulations and the administrative procedures that will be used by government in reaching justification decisions.
Technical guidance for monitoring landfill leachate, groundwater and surface water at permitted landfill sites.
Guidance for local authorities on the consistent use of their litter enforcement powers.
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting metal shredder residues and post shredder treatment residues for disposal at landfill for non-hazardous waste.
How to comply with your licence, including how to measure, record and report on the water you abstract.
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.
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
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