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How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
Find out how to take samples from processed ABPs and find laboratories to test them, and what to do if one of your samples fails a test.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
The T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Guidance on the handling of slurry and manure to help reduce the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Rules that local authorities in England must follow when registering a premises to produce spring water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Information about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, including how to report sightings.
Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
The U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Find out what help you can get from your council to dispose of hazardous and toxic waste
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