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How to report your data, deal with changes to your account or organisation, and what happens if you miss or exceed targets or report late.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Guidance for local authorities and other land managers in England on maintaining local environmental quality.
This section will help you develop your application for a permit for a landfill or to deposit waste on land as a recovery operation. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
When you can use collected or harvested rainwater without a water abstraction licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of manufactured topsoil made from waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of 5 cubic metres per day using equipment that does not conform to the British Standard or where the receiving watercourse does not always have flow, or both.
Standard rules for discharges to ground with a daily volume of greater than 2 but no more than 5 cubic metres per day.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
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.
This guidance sets out a structured approach to the management of landfill gas.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
Sets out the basis on which the Environment Agency should decide whether or not a river or watercourse is treated as a ‘main river’.
How to apply for compliance scheme approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply.
These are emissions limits and appropriate measures for monitoring emissions to air and water for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the South East river basin district river basin management plan.
How to keep your reservoir operating safely. For reservoir owners, operators and those maintaining or operating large raised reservoirs in England.
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