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A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
This guidance describes the Environment Agency’s natural flood management (NFM) heat maps.
This section will help you complete your permit application for a landfill for inert waste, or to deposit waste on land as a recovery activity. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
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.
What you need to do when you start planning your landfill site.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
Check if you're affected by the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM). See what actions you must take each scheme year.
Standard rules for installing and using boreholes and temporary trial pits within a floodplain.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Emissions control related appropriate measures for biological waste treatment.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
These are appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
These are waste treatment appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
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