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Response information and training on countering pollution or threats of pollution from shipping and offshore installations in UK waters.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
These are appropriate measures for emissions control for a regulated facility permitted to store and treat or transfer (or both) ELVs. You must identify, characterise and control emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
This guidance outlines the circumstances under which a marine licence may be required from the Marine Management Organisation.
These are the appropriate measures for emissions control at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Guidance on the planning for mineral extraction in plan making and the application process.
Guidance concerning the international convention for the prevention of pollution from ships (MARPOL) surveyors
Find out about temporary changes to the destruction of spoilt beer, cider, wine or made-wine if you're a brewer, cider producer, wine maker or publican.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
These are the appropriate measures for emissions control at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
Find out how to kill trees on site using chemical treatments to prevent the spread of pests and diseases.
MCA guidelines for ports to ensure a co-ordinated local and national response to an oil spill.
How councils should deal with litter, refuse and dog mess, and the penalties they can give.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
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