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The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Standard rules to use waste for reclamation, restoration or improvement of land (existing permits only).
Standard rules for the storage and use of up to 100ktd of waste for construction (existing permits only).
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
This guidance explains the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process for organisations who want to submit a nuclear power plant design for assessment.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you do not need to monitor emissions from permitted medium combustion plant that are used for back-up generation.
The purpose of this document is to provide a best method approach to sampling and analysing emissions from enclosed landfill gas flares.
This guidance covers the monitoring of emissions from spark ignition engines.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This page provides introductory information on Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW) packages.
This page describes the concept of immobilising and encapsulating hazardous materials within a wasteform and how adequate immobilisation can be proven as part of Disposability Assessment submissions.
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