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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).
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
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 to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
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.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
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