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Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat and dispose of invasive non-native plant material without an environmental permit.
The licences and permits you need, the documents you must prepare, and how to apply to build a hydropower scheme.
Boating basics including essential knowledge and techniques you need to make sure you enjoy yourselves and stay safe on the water.
Guidance for inspecting engineers including the reporting of section 10 inspection findings.
The U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
For manufacturers of long-term samplers and test laboratories who carry out testing of equipment.
The fundamental objective of radioactive substances regulation and the 10 regulatory principles we apply when carrying out our work.
Guidance to help UK administered aeroplane operators comply with the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
Map of water management catchments and list of catchment coordinators.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
The U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
What you must do if you are a wholesaler or reseller selling fluorinated gas (F gas) in cylinders or equipment.
These are appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
The appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the WSR.
What to do if you see a bloom of algae in a river, lake or the sea.
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