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Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
How to meet the general binding rules or apply for a permit if you have a septic tank or treatment plant - fees, application forms and exceptions
How to store oil safely, check which oil storage regulations apply and pollution penalties
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
For the first time, over 1.2 million ‘eligible’ non-household customers in England can choose their water supplier (from 3 April 2017).
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Hand luggage restrictions at UK airports - carry-on luggage, checked-in baggage, restricted items and liquids, electronic devices carried from Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
An innovation competition aiming to accelerate commercialisation of innovative longer duration energy storage projects.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
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