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U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Guidance on how to do detailed air quality modelling for specified generators.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
How to comply with emission limit values (ELVs) for hydrogen combustion plant greater than 1 megawatt thermal input (MWth).
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site at a specified location.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
When you do not need a water abstraction licence from the Environment Agency for passive dewatering.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
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