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Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
£20 million of BEIS funding to support a new clean technology early stage investment fund
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
Blogs where government organisations talk about their work and share information and ideas.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
The CMA has opened an investigation into 3 fashion brands to scrutinise their ‘green’ claims.
Rules on labelling food, feed and seed as organic or using organic production terms if you produce, prepare, store, import, export or sell organic food in the UK.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Funding for local authorities to help them install energy saving upgrades and low carbon heating in low-income households.
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 34 agencies...
Research on the Green Deal assessment experience and what households have done and plan to do since having the assessment.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
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