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This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
The S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
The 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.
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.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
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 U12 exemption allows landscapers, farmers and growers to spread mulch as a protective covering onto land around trees, bushes or plants.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
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