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How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
Our dedicated Waste Services teams deliver and develop integrated waste management capabilities, support national strategies, and manage customer and supplier relationships across the waste lifecycle.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
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