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This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
Standard rules permit and generic risk assessment for new and existing, low risk, stationary medium combustion plant.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
Environment Agency regulatory position on installing small-scale equipment for monitoring in a river and for associated equipment such as instrument cabinets located alongside.
How to demonstrate 'decarbonisation readiness' for new or substantially refurbished electricity generating combustion plants when applying for an environmental permit.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion treatment capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
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.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
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).
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
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 the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
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