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This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
U8 exemption allows you to recycle waste that does not need treating before being used. This helps reduce the use of virgin materials.
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).
Information on the lock keeper service on the River Thames.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
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).
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