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Introducing 3 innovative programmes to improve resilience to flooding and coastal change.
Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
To help both holders and potential holders of environmental permits understand how to comply with their permits.
When you need company certification to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and how to get it.
U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water.
When and how risk management authorities should use climate change allowances for flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
The design requirements that you need to meet in your environmental permit application and how to comply with your permit.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
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