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You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
Types of waste and how much you can use in building projects, landscaping and drainage works, or to maintain existing linear networks under a U1 exemption.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
An overview of the recyclability assessment methodology (RAM). Under extended producer responsibility for packaging, large producers must report the recyclability of some packaging materials
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Guidance to help maritime operators understand and meet their compliance obligations under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
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