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Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
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