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Information and advice on cleaning sex-on-premises venues.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
How to clean and disinfect after an animal disease outbreak and store and dispose of the washwater.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
The D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties
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.
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