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General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
An overview of the recyclability assessment methodology (RAM). Under extended producer responsibility for packaging, large producers must report the recyclability of some packaging materials
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
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.
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 develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
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.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
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.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
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