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Apply to replace a time limited licence or condition that is expiring.
What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you're allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
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.
If you are required to apply for registration as a reprocessor or exporter of packaging waste under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, and to apply for optional accreditation, you must submit a sampling an…
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
This manual is a guide for industry sector associations and operators of a climate change agreement (CCA).
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
When to use hydrological and hydraulic modelling as part of a flood risk assessment for a planning application, and the expected standards.
You can use this tool to find out what controls apply to exporting you waste from England to its destination country.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
South East byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
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