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U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Check what activities and locations apply to the byelaws.
Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
Appeal by Nick Brookes against an Enforcement Notice issued under Regulation 36.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
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.
Details the work involved in producing our Environmental Safety Case and its role in securing Permit approval for the LLWR Site.
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.
U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
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.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
Standard rules SR2015 No 14: 75kte metal recycling site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread biochar (waste code 19 01 18) to benefit land.
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