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Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
The findings of a survey of current Environment Agency practice for controlling sewage disposal to underground Chalk strata in the UK.
Fluorinated gases (F gas) that you must not use to refill equipment.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How to use an underground storage tank safely to minimise the risk to groundwater.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
The T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings before disposing of them to land.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
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