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Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
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).
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Rye Harbour high water times for each day (morning and afternoon).
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of sale, self-managed organisational waste and plastic and paper bags data for 2024 and 2025.
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).
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
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