EA Position Statements

COVID-19 regulatory position statements

Regulatory position statements on activities that involve COVID-19 test kits and unused COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE).

• Managing unused waste COVID-19 test kits: RPS C29

• 20 June 2023

• Managing unused waste COVID-19 PPE: RPS C30

• 1 July 2023

Chemicals

Regulatory position statements on activities that involve chemicals.

• Transformers containing PCBs: new rules – RPS 246

• 20 May 2021

Disposing of waste

Regulatory position statements on activities that involve disposing of waste.

• Accepting household packaging waste at HWRCs: RPS 234

• 19 February 2024

• Burning waste in the open after an animal disease outbreak: RPS 251

• 19 January 2022

• Burning waste wood on campfires and bonfires: RPS 50

• 28 April 2023

• Classify excavated waste from street and utility works: RPS 298

• 4 June 2024

 

• Dewatering and depositing silts from sustainable drainage systems (SUDS): RPS 55

• 5 January 2023

• Disposing of trees and plants affected by disease or pests: RPS 71

• 21 July 2021

• Disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers: RPS 7

• 18 July 2022

• Disposing of waste milk from an animal disease outbreak: RPS 40

• 12 November 2021

• Incinerating straw, manure and litter from an animal disease outbreak: RPS 34

• 12 November 2021

 Incinerating wild animal carcasses: RPS 218

• 3 July 2023

• LPG flaring at end-of-life vehicle sites: RPS 202

• 6 March 2024

• Registering as a small packaging producer using the allocation method: RPS 230

• 29 September 2022

 Relaxing certain waste regulatory requirements for volunteers and waste sites involved in voluntary litter collection: RPS 212

• 25 March 2021

• Reporting packaging data under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): RPS 288

• 5 September 2023

• Treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants: RPS 178

• 1 August 2023

• Using back up flares at exempt anaerobic digestion plants: RPS 120

• 31 October 2022

 

Fisheries

Regulatory position statements for activities related to fisheries.

• Using automatic hooking devices in angling: RPS 293

• 28 March 2024

 

Medium combustion plants and specified generators

Regulatory position statements for medium combustion plants and specified generators.

• Operating a schedule 25B, tranche B specified generator for research and development: RPS 220

• 19 December 2023

• Operating an existing medium combustion plant greater than 5MWth: RPS 290

• 9 October 2023

 

Onshore oil and gas

Regulatory position statements on activities that involve onshore oil and gas.

• Decommissioning standalone onshore oil and gas wells: RPS 254

• 28 January 2022

Pig and poultry farming

• Slurry stores on permitted pig and poultry farms with less than 1% dry matter

• 4 November 2020

Storing waste

Regulatory position statements on activities that involve storing waste.

• Collecting and storing mixed fuel from misfuelled vehicles: RPS 9

• 8 March 2024

• Documentation for business waste at take back points: RPS 283

• 11 September 2023

 Receiving hazardous waste wood at household waste recycling centres: RPS 249

• 13 March 2024

• Retaining shock absorbers and airbags in end of life vehicles (ELVs): RPS 195

• 25 July 2023

• Storage of non-hazardous waste collected at transport hubs: RPS 240

• 23 February 2024

• Storing and depressurising nominally empty nitrous oxide canisters: RPS 289

• 19 December 2023

• Storing and dewatering street sweeping waste: RPS 65

• 1 August 2023

 Storing and drying waste wood before burning in a Part B co-incinerator: RPS 213

• 19 May 2021

• Storing and handling waste glass containing other wastes: RPS 292

• 21 May 2024

• Storing and managing excavated waste from street works: RPS 299

• 4 June 2024

 Storing and physically treating hazardous metal shredder residues: RPS 274

• 6 March 2024

• Storing and treating asphalt waste: RPS 157

• 4 February 2020

• Storing and treating chemical toilet waste: RPS 277

• 25 January 2023

• Storing and treating hazardous waste cable: RPS 276

• 5 February 2024

• Storing and treating hazardous waste wood: RPS 291

• 2 November 2023

• Storing and treating litter, straw, slurry and washwater from an animal disease outbreak: RPS 36

• 6 October 2023

• Storing and treating waste clothes hangers: RPS 285

• 14 September 2023

• Storing and using clean CRT screen glass in bound applications: RPS 188

• 12 September 2023

• Storing cans of waste paint collected by take-back schemes: RPS 267

• 8 January 2024

• Storing contaminated waste waters from gas pipelines: RPS 100

• 19 January 2023

• Storing fly-tipped waste and waste from trash screens and litter bins: RPS 60

• 7 October 2022

• Storing food waste: RPS 269

• 2 November 2022

• Storing samples of waste for regulation or investigation: RPS 183

• 29 June 2023

• Storing waste aerosol containers: RPS 63

• 16 July 2020

• Storing waste incapacitant sprays: RPS 138

• 30 January 2024

• Storing waste left by former tenants in empty properties: RPS 171

• 1 December 2020

• Storing waste onboard vehicles seized by regulators: RPS 258

• 6 July 2022

• Temporary community waste collection points: RPS 223

• 22 February 2023

• Temporary storage of ELVs at a motor manufacturer’s dealership: RPS 205

• 10 November 2020

• Temporary storage of recyclable waste at collection points by or for charities: RPS 239

• 31 October 2022

• Temporary storage of waste coffee pods: RPS 282

• 30 January 2024

• Temporary storage of waste sandbags after a flood: RPS 168

• 9 February 2024

• Temporary storage of waste upholstered domestic seating containing POPs: RPS 265

• 19 December 2022

• Waste collection authorities contingency planning: RPS 79

• 22 February 2023

Treating waste

Regulatory position statements on activities that involve treating waste.

• Bioaerosol monitoring at regulated facilities: RPS 209

• 18 July 2023

• Building lined biobeds in a groundwater source protection zone 1: RPS 140

• 6 October 2021

• Carrying out research or trials with waste at sites without an environmental permit

• 13 March 2024

• Cleaning and sterilising waste medical instruments containing metal for recovery: RPS 160

• 30 October 2023

• Collecting, storing and upgrading biogas from on-farm manure and slurry: RPS 259

• 13 February 2024

• Collect and treat waste from different sites within the same premises: RPS 224

• 11 November 2021

• Composting and anaerobic digestion of insect manure (frass): RPS 281

• 1 February 2024

• Denaturing controlled drugs that have become waste: RPS 4

• 2 May 2024

• Dewatering bentonite slurry waste in a bentonite recirculation plant: RPS 272

• 1 February 2023

• Environmental permits for ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plants: RPS 33

• 17 December 2021

• Heat treatment of waste plastics for reuse: RPS 112

• 24 February 2022

• Monitoring fugitive emissions from shredding waste upholstered domestic seating: RPS 297

• 9 May 2024

• Recovering unused waste plastics coded 16 03 06: RPS 273

• 29 August 2023

• Removing batteries, plugs and power cables from WEEE at HWRCs: RPS 295

• 8 May 2024

• Segregating waste upholstered domestic seating that may contain POPs at HWRCs: RPS 266

• 29 August 2023

• Shredding waste upholstered domestic seating containing POPs: RPS 264

• 19 December 2022

• Solidifying wet utilities excavation waste using non-waste absorbents: RPS 275

• 26 January 2023

• Storing and treating asphalt waste: RPS 157

• 4 February 2020

• Treat small volumes of contaminated soil and groundwater: RPS 215

• 3 October 2023

• Treating food waste where the food was served and consumed: RPS 229

• 21 July 2022

• Treating microbiological laboratory waste where it is produced: RPS 233

• 27 November 2023

• Treating municipal waste by aerobic digestion: RPS 257

• 18 July 2022

• Treating, storing, and using carbon dioxide from anaerobic digestion: RPS 255

• 13 September 2023

• Treating and using water that contains concrete and silt at construction sites: RPS 235

• 20 November 2020

Using waste

Regulatory position statements on activities that involve using waste.

• Emergency services and armed forces use of ELVs and other wastes: RPS 167

• 5 May 2023

• Replacing the use of ‘not otherwise specified’ waste codes: RPS 241

• 10 January 2023

• Storing and treating waste fire extinguishers: RPS 132

• 13 March 2024

• Use of clay in slurry lagoons or irrigation reservoirs: RPS 91

• 16 October 2023

• Use of manufactured topsoil: RPS 190

• 24 August 2023

• Using pine trees to restore dunes or protect riverbanks: RPS 236

• 6 December 2023

• Using R134a gas recovered from end of life vehicles (ELVs): RPS 226

• 3 January 2024

• Using treated asphalt waste: RPS 75

• 27 March 2014

• Using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction activities: RPS 247

• 24 January 2023

• Using waste fire extinguishers for training: RPS 221

• 17 January 2022

• Using wetlands to improve treated effluent discharge: RPS 260

• 29 November 2022

• Waste codes for sewage sludge materials: RPS 231

• 24 February 2022

Using water

Regulatory position statements on using water.

• Abstracting floodwater outside of licence conditions during flood events: RPS 300

• 20 February 2024

• Passive dewatering: regulatory position statement

• 10 December 2020

• Rainwater harvesting: regulatory position statement

• 28 January 2021

• Storing and dewatering non-hazardous iron ochre sludge from abandoned coal mines: RPS 262

• 22 September 2022

Water discharges

Regulatory position statements on water discharge activities.

• Open loop heat pump systems: apply to install one

• 2 October 2023

• Temporary dewatering from excavations to surface water: RPS 261

• 6 January 2023

• Temporary discharge of water unfit for supply from water treatment and supply assets: RPS 280

• 17 April 2024