Waste operations and A1 installations: carrying out research or trials
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How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- When the research and development exemption for installations applies
- When your proposal is within your existing permit conditions
- When your permit conditions allow you to seek approval for the proposal
- Check your other permit conditions
- Check the location and duration or your activity
- Prepare your proposal
- The nature of the research activity or trial
- A detailed description of the changes you're making (or adding) to the permitted activity
- Wastes
- Techniques undergoing development
- Environmental risk assessment
- Duration
- How the Environment Agency will respond
- When you complete the research or trial activity
- If you cannot meet the conditions
- Standard rules to enable trials and innovation at permitted sites
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Waste operations and A1 installations: carrying out research or trials’ (updated 31 March 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026