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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.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
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