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Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
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).
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
Qualification, compliance and notification requirements for ESOS.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
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.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
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