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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 the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
A list of registration charges for Anglian Waterways.
This guidance describes interventions eligible for funding as part of standalone NFM projects through the FCERM investment programme.
How to report releases and transfers from industrial activities that the Environment Agency regulates.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
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