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You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer obligations to assess the recyclability of household packaging supplied between 1 January and 30 June 2025.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use asphalt waste without an environmental permit.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
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