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Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
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.
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 if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
Information on the lock keeper service on the River Thames.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
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 you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
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.
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