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How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
A list of registration charges for Anglian Waterways.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
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 structure your packaging data submission. It includes information about the different types of data you need to submit and the codes you need to use.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Uses of fluorinated gases (F gases) that are banned or will be banned in the future.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
North West and Border Esk byelaws are statutory rules (regulated by law) and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
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