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Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
When you can store and treat asphalt waste without an environmental permit for a waste operation, installation or mobile plant from the Environment Agency.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a deposit for recovery operation and what to include in a waste recovery plan.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
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).
The Environment Agency has provided these LRWPs for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
Guidance on sampling methods and methodologies for materials facility operators, including information about sampling areas, equipment, schedules and compliance
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store sealed containers of food waste.
Environment Agency data for waste accepted and removed from sites with environmental permits for waste management activities.
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
For operators storing and repackaging healthcare waste, photographic and chemical wastes from healthcare premises and similar municipal wastes at a named location.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
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