All Environment articles
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ReportThe assessment and classification of waste packaging
Industry guidance for assessing whether packaging to be taken offsite is waste or not and if waste, whether it is waste packaging or not and whether it should be classified as hazardous or non-hazardous
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NewsNatural Resources Wales: a new branding tool replaced OPRA
More developments following Natural Resources Wales Consultation on our Proposed Installations Banding Tool
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NewsThe Environment Agency hosted a Chemical Industry Liaison Group
The group includes regulators from NRW and SEPA with over 10 Trade Associations invited, including CIA.
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Position StatementEnvironmental Permitting & UK’s Best Available Techniques
The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) and the other UK Best Available Techniques (BAT) Tranche 1 impacted Trade Associations reviewed the recently published UK BAT Waste Gas Treatment outline draft.
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Position StatementPlastics and Microplastics
Plastics bring immense benefits to society, from their use in medical applications, through to their use in vehicles to makethem more fuel efficient and keeping ourfood safe. However, as a result of theirwide-use they can find their way into the environment. Over the course of the past few years, concern has grown considerably towards the quantity of plastic waste andits impact on our environment including both human health and wildlife health particularly from microplastics.
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Position StatementInnovation Principle - Why now?
The Innovation Principle enables better regulation by ensuring a balanced approach is taken in policy decision making, stimulating investment in innovation by increasing the confidence of innovators in the regulatory system.
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Position StatementModernising UK’s environmental permitting process
Continued access to a diverse and innovative chemical sector at home will provide the UK with the raw materials to compete in newly arising low-carbon industries. Without skilled, equipped, and competitive chemistry assets, nascent low carbon industries will take root elsewhere.
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Position StatementInnovation for a better environment
The UK Government has set out a 25-year plan for England with an ambition to leave the environment in a better state for future generations. In this context and in exitingthe European Union (EU), a new statutory policy statement on environmental principles and the new environmental body is expected to be created through an Environmental Principles and Governance Bill. Innovation is not listed as one of the principles for delivering future environment policy.
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Position StatementUK Best Available Techniques
The UK has been at the forefront of environmental permitting for decades and has strongly influenced the development of EU policies based on Best Available Techniques (BAT) due to our longstanding and sophisticated approach.
