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Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
View the application submitted by Universal Glass Ltd for Universal Glass, Dinnington.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
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