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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.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
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).
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
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.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
If you are required to apply for registration as a reprocessor or exporter of packaging waste under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, and to apply for optional accreditation, you must submit a sampling an…
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
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 to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
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