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T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
Standard rules SR2009 No 2: low impact part A installation.
Publishing dates for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) data.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Illustrative waste disposal fees for Year 2 (2026 to 2027) that will be charged to large producers obligated under Extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when sweeping waste can be stored and bulked before collection for onward recovery and disposal elsewhere
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
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