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Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and waste regulations.
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
How to provide enough storage and keep storage records of organic manures in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
How to use the maps to find out if you are at risk of flooding from surface water.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
What flood alerts and flood warnings mean and what you should do when they're issued.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
On 25 March 2025 the Environment Agency served a Notice of Revocation of an Environmental Permit under Regulation 22 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 on Reclamet (Holdings) Limited. The No…
This guidance describes interventions eligible for funding as part of standalone NFM projects through the FCERM investment programme.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Apply to be a waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) producer compliance scheme and operate legally under your approval.
Environment Agency regulatory position on groundwater abstraction under 270 days to allow small-scale abstraction to dewater a construction site.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
As a risk management authority (RMA) use appraisal guidance and supporting information when preparing a proposal, strategy or business case.
How to record and report fluorinated gas (F gas) you produce, import, export or destroy in Great Britain.
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