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U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
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.
Calculate the annual nitrogen and phosphorus emissions from your livestock. Report the data to the Environment Agency.
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.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
When you need a consent or permit to make a discharge from your reservoir and how to carry out a risk assessment.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
How to use the maps to find out if you are at risk of flooding from surface water.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
Uses of fluorinated gases (F gases) that are banned or will be banned in the future.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
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