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Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
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 assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
Natural resources trends focusing on energy, materials, water, waste and nature trends.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
How to report incidents, including pro-formas for PON1 and PON2 and guidance on completion; listing of environmental alerts for operators in the North Sea.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
View a list of applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract or impound water.
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