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How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
If you operate a medium combustion plant (MCP) or a generator, find out if you need to meet MCP and specified generator regulations.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
How to work out charges for water abstraction and impounding licences.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer obligations to assess the recyclability of household packaging supplied between 1 January and 30 June 2025.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
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