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T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
Environment Agency regulatory position on how to classify excavated waste from street works and utility works when you cannot take samples before excavation.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
River Great Ouse: bridge heights, locks, overhead power lines and facilities.
How to record and report fluorinated gas (F gas) you produce, import, export or destroy in Great Britain.
Guidance and information on flood risk management and surface water management.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
When to use hydrological and hydraulic modelling as part of a flood risk assessment for a planning application, and the expected standards.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
The design requirements that you need to meet in your environmental permit application and how to comply with your permit.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Find out how to get to Environment Agency locks and weir fishing sites and when you can fish.
These are appropriate measures for emissions control for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
As a risk management authority (RMA) use appraisal guidance and supporting information when preparing a proposal, strategy or business case.
Bridge heights and profiles, locks and facilities for boaters on the River Medway.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
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