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This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
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.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
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.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for compost produced from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
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.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
How to meet 'end of waste' status for digestate produced from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
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.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
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).
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
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