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Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Requirements for businesses that operate or service electrical switchgear that contains sulphur hexaflouride (SF6).
River conditions, reach closures and restrictions affecting boaters on the River Medway.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
How to recover fluorinated gas (F gas) from equipment and get it reclaimed or recycled.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk abstraction for nature recovery actions and fish or eel passage
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
An introduction to the standards (appropriate measures) that apply to regulated facilities permitted under the Environmental Permitting Regulations to treat or transfer separate collections of waste batteries.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
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.…
The rules for manufacturing mercury added products in Great Britain, as well as importing and exporting them between Great Britain and non-EU countries.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to store and treat ELVs or components. Exempt facilities which store or treat ELVs or compo…
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Standard rules for temporary scaffolding affecting up to 20 metres length of a main river.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of secondary treated domestic sewage with a maximum daily volume between 5 and 20 cubic metres per day.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
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