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Environment Agency enforcement position on when waste collection authorities can operate temporary collection sites without an environmental permit.
View the permit issued for Whitemoss Landfill Site, Skelmersdale under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
View the permit issued for Poplars Landfill Site and Anaerobic Digestion Facility, Cannock under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
Regional information from our screening work, and its relevance to the siting of a GDF
National Geological Screening for a GDF - Pennines region
This page provides information on the management of High Heat Generating Waste (HHGW) prior to disposal.
European and UK regulations govern how you can move radioactive waste or spent nuclear fuel into or out of the country.
This page describes how Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW) is transported from interim storage facilities to a GDF.
T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
Position statement: end of waste criteria for the production and use of processed fuel oil from waste lubricating oils.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for certain types of permanently installed continuous water monitors (CWMs) used for the monitoring of treated wastewater discharges from industrial proces…
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for certain types of portable water monitors (PWMs).
How to analyse samples taken to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
This document details the requirements for a laboratory undertaking the chemical testing of soil and the procurer of analytical services to the MCERTS performance standard.
Guidance on the performance standards for automatic isokinetic samplers used in the measurement of emissions from industrial chimney stacks, flues and ducts.
This programme will support development of technologies and techniques that may enable future UK access to medical radionuclides.
View the permit issued for European Metal Recycling Leeds, Leeds under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Guidance on assessing methane emissions from the surface of permitted landfill sites.
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