We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste glass containing other non-hazardous wastes.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
How to assess the impact of a flood risk activity and decide whether it supports the objectives of your local River Basin Management Plan.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
How the Environment Agency uses your personal information in services to support environmental permitting.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
How the Environment Agency regulates the different types of nuclear sites and protects people and the environment.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).