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Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, transporting, bulking up and accepting litter from voluntary litter collections.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can remove airworthy parts from a waste aircraft which is under a care and maintenance programme.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
This document covers the use of geomembranes in landfill engineering and was originally developed with the British Geomembrane Association.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store fly-tipped waste, waste from trash screens and public litter bins without an environmental permit.
Advice on how to classify and code wastes from some of the methods used to treat hazardous waste.
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.
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is gathering information to understand if the current Search Areas could be suitable to host a GDF.
This Good Practice Guide (GPG) has been developed by Jacobs on behalf of the NDA to identify and facilitate consistent application of good practice within the nuclear industry regarding the characterisation of solid radioact…
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for operators.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept gypsum and cement-based waste without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on burning waste particle board off-cuts (waste code 03 01 05) as a fuel in a small appliance.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
This page provides introductory information on High Heat Generating Waste (HHGW).
T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
RSR RGN2 provides an overview of the regulation of radioactive substances on nuclear sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
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