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How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
A resource focusing on air pollution: sources, impacts and actions.
This document sets out what air pollution is, where it comes from, what we’re doing to reduce it, and what you can do.
This guide examines the environmental impacts of urban areas, especially good practice in reducing pollution
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
The pollution inventory provides information about releases and transfers of substances from regulated industrial activities.
Provides guidance on how planning can take account of the impact of new development on air quality.
Disasters may impact air quality through the generation of high levels of potentially pathogenic particulate matter, for example, in a volcanic eruption
Guidance to help health and care staff to work with patients, families and communities to take action on the health effects of air pollution.
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