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These are the appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste. They do not apply when waste will be rece…
What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you're allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).
These are waste treatment appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store mixed fuel from misfuelled vehicles without an environmental permit.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for July 2025
Guidance on ash sampling strategies, formerly called M4 guidelines for ash sampling and analysis.
Guidance setting out the standards that continuous ambient monitoring systems and low-cost air quality sensor systems need to meet.
Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
How to inspect waste, check paperwork, and sample and test the waste you accept.
How to calculate your financial provision, what it needs to cover and how to agree it with the Environment Agency.
How to manage the leachate produced by the waste in your site.
What you need to monitor and how to report your performance to meet your permit conditions.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Severn river basin district river basin management plan.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
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