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How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
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.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
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.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
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.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
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.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
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.
How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Increase flood resilience with Natural Flood Management
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
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