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General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
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