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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.
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.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
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.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
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.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
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.
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.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
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