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Workplace recycling in England changed on 31 March 2025. Guidance for all businesses, charities and public sector organisations on separating recyclable waste.
Find contact numbers and email addresses for the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Find out about the Forestry Commission’s Professional Forester Apprenticeship programme. The Development Woodland Officer role aims to kickstart your forestry career.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Apply online for a CPH number for land or buildings you'll use to keep livestock, including those kept as pets, in England.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Guidance for waste collectors on household recycling requirements in England, which change on 31 March 2026.
Find out when and how to apply for CSHT funding from 2025 and how to manage your agreement.
Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
Find out when you are permitted to cut and trim hedgerows on or next to land used for agriculture.
How to report dead wild birds.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
Information on the UK government’s framework to create UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) by assessing and endorsing the global corporate reporting baseline of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
Use this service to apply for certificates and inspections if you export plants from England and Wales.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
The Department for Education's (DfE) sustainability leadership and climate action plans initiative.
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