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Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
North West and Border Esk byelaws are statutory rules (regulated by law) and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
How the Environment Agency uses its enforcement and sanctioning powers to secure compliance with laws that protect the environment.
As a new fishing season begins, the Environment Agency welcomes anglers back to English rivers.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Guidance on additional risk assessments you will need to do for an environmental permit and information about the H1 software tool.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
Producer responsibility laws in the UK cover packaging, electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), batteries and end of life vehicles (ELVs).
The Environment Agency prosecuted Severn Trent Water for huge discharge of raw sewage at treatment works in Stoke.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
List of exemptions for disposing of waste, for example depositing or burning it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
Reports for the amount of EEE placed on the market and WEEE collected in the UK under the WEEE Regulations.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
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