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The environmental permit, consent and licence you may need before you install a ground source or surface water source heating or cooling system.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Find out the energy efficiency requirements you must comply with, and how to comply, to operate under an environmental permit.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that apply to regulated facilities permitted to treat or transfer separate collections of waste batteries.
When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
How fusion energy developers can engage early with the Environment Agency and Health and Safety Executive to get regulatory advice before applying for permits and other approvals.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling site at a specified location.
Guidance on how to do detailed air quality modelling for specified generators.
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