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How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk impounding activities.
Your responsibilities to check equipment for fluorinated gas (F gas) leaks.
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.
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.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
Anglia rod fishing byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, and where, when and what fish you can take.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
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.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
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.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
How to use the maps to find out if you are at risk of flooding from surface water.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
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