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Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
When you need company certification to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and how to get it.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
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 businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer obligations to assess the recyclability of household packaging supplied between 1 January and 30 June 2025.
Uses of fluorinated gases (F gases) that are banned or will be banned in the future.
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).
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
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