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How councils and national park authorities should deal with the removal of abandoned vehicles from land in the open air and roads.
How to get an export health certificate to export or move live animals and animal products from Great Britain to the EU, Northern Ireland or non-EU countries.
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.
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.
Workplace recycling in England changed on 31 March 2025. Guidance for all businesses, charities and public sector organisations on separating recyclable waste.
Use this guide to access records, maps, photographs and documents about coal mining held by the Mining Remediation Authority.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
The type of seasonal work on farms, who can apply, where you can find work, how to avoid scams and working on UK farms.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Check if your import, export or re-export needs a permit or certificate under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Guidance for local authority inspectors on licensing activities involving animals.
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.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.
Access times for Defence Training Estate Lulworth and Tynham Village, Dorset.
Use this guidance to find the risk category and inspection rate for imports of live animals and animal products from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein to Great Britain.
The variation effective from 00:01hrs Saturday 01 August 2026.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
From October 2026 (January 2027 in Scotland), all organisations that are licensed or permitted to receive waste must use the new report receipt of waste service.
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