Landfill Operators: Environmental Permits: The English Approach
Source: Landfill operators: environmental permits - Guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
This guidance is for operators: of an existing landfill site who are planning to build a new landfill site who are planning to extend a landfill site
Landfills for inert waste. The environmental permitting requirements for landfills for inert waste and how to comply with your permit.
Deposit waste over existing waste at landfills (overtipping). You need approval from the Environment Agency before you deposit waste over completed cells that have permanently stopped taking waste.
Plan the environmental setting of your site. What you need to do when you start planning your landfill site.
What to include in your environmental setting and site design report. This section will help you complete your permit application for a landfill for inert waste, or to deposit waste on land as a recovery activity. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
What to include in your environmental setting and installation design report. This section will help you develop your permit application for a landfill for hazardous or non-hazardous waste. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
What to include in your hydrogeological risk assessment. This section will help you develop your application for a permit for a landfill or to deposit waste on land as a recovery operation. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
How to do a stability risk assessment: landfill sites for inert waste or deposit for recovery activities. What to include in a stability risk assessment for a landfill site for inert waste or deposit for recovery activity.
How to do a stability risk assessment: landfill sites for hazardous and non-hazardous waste. What to include in a stability risk assessment for a landfill site for hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
Calculate your financial provision. How to calculate your financial provision, what it needs to cover and how to agree it with the Environment Agency.
Design and build your landfill site. The design requirements that you need to meet in your environmental permit application and how to comply with your permit.
Construction quality assurance (CQA). How to create a CQA plan, the CQA qualification requirements you need to meet and how to create a validation report.
How the Environment Agency makes decisions on landfill engineering. What the Environment Agency requires from you when you design and construct a landfill site.
Develop and maintain management plans. You must manage your operations to prevent or minimise pollution from the activities authorised by your permit.
Accept the right waste. How to inspect waste, check paperwork, and sample and test the waste you accept.
Manage leachate. How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
Manage landfill gas. You must manage the landfill gas produced by the waste in your site.
Monitor and report your performance. What you need to monitor and how to report your performance to meet your permit conditions.
Review your hydrogeological risk assessment. What you need to include in your hydrogeological risk assessment and how to structure your report.
Restore your landfill site. How to restore your landfill site to meet your permit conditions.
Close your landfill site. The standards you must meet to close your landfill site and move it into aftercare.