We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥, 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
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥, we’d like to know more about your visit today. .