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Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
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 complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
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.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
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.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
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).
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
Use this service to notify the Environment Agency if you plan to construct a new or substantially enlarge an existing silage, slurry or agricultural fuel oil store, or store field silage on a new site.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
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