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How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
Types of waste and how much you can use in building projects, landscaping and drainage works, or to maintain existing linear networks under a U1 exemption.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
The current conditions affecting boaters on the River Thames and what the warnings mean.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
When you may need an environmental permit or licence for activities that could pollute, increase flood risk, affect land drainage or affect water resources. Check the rules and get advice before you start operating.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site separate to where the waste was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
Sign in or create an account so that your organisation can report packaging data and meet its obligations under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
What flood alerts and flood warnings mean and what you should do when they're issued.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
Find out if you have obligations as a supplier or importer of packaging or packaged goods under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging – and if you’re a large or small producer.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
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