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When you need consent or permit to discharge from water supply assets to surface waters. How to carry out a risk assessment and how to apply.
T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
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.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
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.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
When you need company certification to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and how to get it.
This guidance describes interventions eligible for funding as part of standalone NFM projects through the FCERM investment programme.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
From the 1 April 2026 you must pay the Environment Agency (greenhouse gas emissions) charges for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
Rye Harbour high water times for each day (morning and afternoon).
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
How to monitor and report on the sales of fossil fuel boilers. How the low carbon target affects you, when you get credits and how to use them. How to pay for a credit shortfall.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
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