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This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
UK organisations that are affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging may need to get evidence of packaging waste recycling and pay disposal fees.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
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