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How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
How to prevent the introduction and spread of animal and bird disease by following good hygiene and biosecurity standards.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
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 councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
Fifty-six councils across the UK to receive funding totalling more than £1.2 million to target chewing gum stains
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Find out how to prevent Xylella fastidiosa, Ceratocystis platani and Candidatus Phytoplasma ulmi entering the UK on plants and trees.
Sheep dip is a hazardous substance – follow this code to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution when you use, store and dispose of dip.
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.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
How to register to move animal by-products (ABPs) safely, how they should be moved, and the paperwork you need.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
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