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Air pollution
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Preventing air pollution
- Causes and effects of air pollution
- Business benefits of improving air quality
- What you must do to prevent air pollution
- Prevent dark smoke
- Boilers and furnaces: environmental authorisations or permits
- Boilers and furnaces - chimney and emissions requirements
- Burning waste controls
- Protecting neighbours from air pollution nuisance
- Checking and controlling air pollution from your business
- Air Quality Management Areas and Smoke Control Areas
- Air pollution environmental legislation
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Fluorinated gases (F-gases)
- What is the 2020 refrigeration F-gas ban?
- Bans on new refrigeration equipment from 1 Jan 2022
- What are fluorinated gases?
- Phase down of F-gases 2015 – 2030
- Calculating the equipment charge as CO2 equivalent
- Stationary refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps: F-gas controls
- Fire protection equipment
- Mobile air conditioning (cars and vans): F-gas controls
- Solvent cleaning: F-gas controls
- Producing and supplying fluids: F-gas controls
- Specialist uses of F-gases
- How F-gas regulations are enforced
- F-Gas Legislation
- Certificates for working with F-gas / Ozone Depleting Substances in the European Union after the end of the Brexit transition period
- Ozone depleting substances (ODS)
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Solvent emissions
- What is an organic solvent?
- Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) Permits for solvent emissions
- Why you should monitor your solvent use and emissions
- How to monitor your solvent use and emissions
- Solvent monitoring plan and solvent emissions data
- Managing the use of solvents
- Reducing solvent use in production and cleaning processes
- Recovering and reusing solvents
- Storing and using solvents
- Solvent limits in paints and varnishes
- Solvent limits in vehicle refinishing products
- Solvent emissions environmental legislation
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Reducing vehicle emissions
- Benefits of reducing your vehicle emissions
- Vehicle emissions legal requirements - what you must do
- Choosing transport methods with the least environmental impacts
- Planning your transport logistics
- Efficient use of vehicles
- Choosing low emissions vehicles
- Considering vehicles powered by alternative fuels
- Taxes, tax breaks and grants for low-emission vehicles
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Improving air quality
- Air quality
- Air quality for chemical businesses
- Air quality for hair and beauty salons
- Air quality for machinery or electrical equipment businesses
- Ammonia emissions to air from slurry and manure
- Degreasing solvents used in manufacturing
- Energy and steam generation
- Evaporative cooling towers
- Fume hoods or laboratory cupboards
- Furnaces
- Refrigeration and air conditioning
- Solvents and adhesives for leather businesses
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Preventing air pollution
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Carbon reduction and efficiency
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Towards a Circular Economy
- What is a circular economy?
- Using fewer resources
- Managing your waste for a circular economy - recycling and beyond
- Designing your product, service or business model for a circular economy
- Reuse
- Repairing goods
- Remanufacturing and refurbishing
- Recycling
- Protecting biodiversity and regenerating natural systems
- What is the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS)
- Biofuels for transport
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Buying environmentally friendly goods and services
- Benefits of buying sustainable goods and services
- Avoiding unnecessary purchases
- How to make your buying more sustainable
- Buying products and services with environmental labels
- Top tips for buying key goods and services sustainably
- Selecting a sustainable supplier
- Environmentally friendly products and services - further information
- Sustainable purchasing checklist: things to consider when buying goods or services for your business
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Cutting your carbon emissions
- How climate change affects your business
- How to cut carbon emissions from energy use
- How to cut carbon emissions from business travel
- How to cut carbon emissions from business buildings
- How to design low-carbon products
- How to find suppliers of low-carbon products
- Tax breaks to encourage energy efficiency
- Comply with emissions trading requirements
- International climate change projects and the carbon offset market
- How to get involved with Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation projects
- Purchasing carbon offsets
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business
- The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
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Energy Efficiency
- Simple ways to save energy
- How to monitor your energy use
- Create an energy efficient work culture
- Energy efficiency tips for different types of business
- Financing loans and tax incentives for energy efficient equipment
- Energy efficiency: sources of advice and financial help
- Checklist: Using energy efficiently
- Energy labelling and ecodesign of energy-related products
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
- EU Emissions Trading Scheme (UK Emissions Trading Scheme)
- Generate renewable energy
- The Deposit Return Scheme
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More about carbon reduction
- Building renovation or restoration
- Carbon emissions, greenhouse gases
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Eco-schools
- Farming and climate change
- Hair and Beauty - reducing environmental impacts
- Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
- Managing environmental performance
- Managing your environmental performance for transport businesses
- Providing environmental information to your customers, take back schemes and other initiatives
- Retail and wholesale: managing your environmentl performance
- Sustainable procurement practices for education
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Towards a Circular Economy
- Case Studies and Videos
- Checklists
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Emergency response
- COMAH
- Environmental damage
- Manage flood risk
- Pollution incident response planning
- Firefighting
- Preventing major accidents at Category A facilities
- Retail and wholesale pollution incidents - Spills, leaks and accidents
- Spills on construction sites
- Pollution Incident Response Planning for Golf facilities
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Environmental management
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First steps - guidance for new starts, projects and charities
- Resource efficiency: sources of funding
- Energy efficiency
- Water efficiency
- Construction: materials and fittings
- Waste and waste minimisation
- The circular economy
- Preparing for emergencies
- Enhancing biodiversity
- Storing materials and fuels
- Preventing nuisances
- Prevent air pollution
- Transport issues
- Check if you need an environmental permit
- Resource efficiency - good practice checklist
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Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and environmental reports
- Introduction - What is an EMS?
- What are the benefits of an EMS and what is involved?
- Types of Environmental Management Systems
- How can NetRegs help you implement an EMS?
- Implementing an EMS – getting started
- Why produce environmental reports
- EMS Case study - CMS Window Systems
- EMS Case Study - Ross-Shire Engineering
- Manage your purchases to minimise their environmental impacts
- Management toolkit for SMEs - Northern Ireland
- Management toolkit for SMEs - Scotland
- Manage and improve your environmental performance
- Manage the environmental performance of your golf facility
- Adapt to Climate Change
- Smallholder's environmental checklist
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First steps - guidance for new starts, projects and charities
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Land
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Contaminated land
- Defining land contamination
- Responsibilities for land contamination
- Preventing land contamination
- Environmental damage caused by land contamination
- Cleaning up contaminated land
- Buying land affected by contamination
- Insuring against the risk of land contamination
- Contaminated land environmental legislation
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Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and other invasive weeds
- Your legal responsibilities in Northern Ireland
- Your legal responsibilities in Scotland
- Identifying invasive plants
- Reporting non-native plants
- How invasive plant species spread
- Handling and working with invasive plants
- Spraying invasive plants with herbicide
- Digging up invasive plants
- Cutting and burning invasive plants
- Burying invasive plant material on site
- Disposing of invasive plants and contaminated soils off-site
- Non-native and invasive plants environmental legislation
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Nature conservation
- How conservation and biodiversity relate to your business
- How businesses rely on natural resources and services
- Protected sites and priority habitats
- Protected and priority species
- Non-native species
- Environmental damage to biodiversity
- Managing biodiversity: Establish the baseline
- Managing biodiversity: Create a site action plan
- Managing biodiversity: Measure performance
- Work with other organisations on biodiversity
- Conservation and biodiversity legislation
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Land topics for agriculture
- Actions to help pollinators
- Codes of good agricultural practice
- Cross compliance and agri-environment schemes
- Cultivation
- Land and soil management
- Land management and agri-environment schemes for hunting and shooting businesses
- Northern Ireland: Nutrient action programme (NAP) 2019-2022
- Scotland: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ)
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Land topics for construction sites
- Archaeology on site
- Dealing with contaminated land on construction sites
- Excavating and installing pipework on a construction site
- Impacts of land contamination on construction work
- Nature conservation and affecting public rights of way for construction sites
- Site investigation and sampling to identify contaminated land
- Soils and soil stripping
- Land managment topics for forestry
- Land topics - biodiversity, land access, rules for hunting, pest control
- Land topics for mining and quarrying businesses
- Smallholders
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Contaminated land
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Materials, fuels and equipment
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Batteries regulations
- Businesses affected by the batteries regulations
- Identifying different battery types
- Substance restrictions and battery labelling
- Industrial and automotive battery producers responsibilites
- Portable battery producers responsibilities
- Portable batteries: distributor and retailer responsibilities
- How end users can recycle batteries
- Treating or recycling waste batteries
- Exporting waste batteries
- Battery compliance scheme operators responsibilities
- Batteries: Environmental legislation
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Packaging and packaging waste
- What is packaging?
- Obligations for packaging design and use -who do they apply to?
- Packaging design and use - your responsibilities
- Packaging design and use - exemptions
- Packaging producer obligations - who do they apply to?
- Producer compliance schemes
- Packaging producers: Individual route
- Reprocessing and export of packaging waste
- Packaging: reduce, reuse and recycle
- Packaging: environmental legislation
- Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
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Chemical storage
- REACH and storing chemicals
- Storage, handling and delivery of chemicals
- Bulk chemical storage - tanks and drums
- Secondary containment systems for chemicals
- Small-scale chemical storage - Cabinets, shelves and vehicles
- Chemical labelling and information
- Avoiding and dealing with chemical spills
- Temperature controlled chemical storage
- Waste chemicals and chemical containers
- Chemical storage environmental legislation
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Oil storage
- Who do oil storage control apply to?
- Where to locate your oil storage container
- Requirements for your oil storage container
- Secondary containment systems (Bunding)
- Pipework and fittings for oil storage
- Mobile bowsers for oil and fuel
- Maintaining your oil storage containers
- Prevent pollution: dealing with oil spills
- Oil storage - Further information
- Oil storage environmental legislation
- Pathogens from laboratories and production facilities
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Pesticides and biocides
- What are pesticides and biocides and who uses them?
- Supplying pesticides and biocides
- Approved pesticide and biocide products and qualifications
- Controls on applying pesticides and biocides
- Applying pesticides and biocides
- Good practice for using pesticides and biocides
- Import, supply and sale - Getting approval for pesticides and biocides
- Disposing of pesticides and biocides
- Dealing with pesticide and biocide spills
- Further information on pesticides and biocides
- Pesticides and biocides environmental legislation
- Managing Radioactive Substances
- RoHS: Restrictions on hazardous substances
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Materials and equipment for agriculture & animal care
- Animal and bird feed storage
- Feed delivery and storage
- Fertiliser for landscaping
- Fertiliser rules
- Maintaining farm machinery
- Non native species at fish farms
- Rules for storing slurry on farms
- Sheep dip rules
- Silage Regulations
- Spraying pesticides
- Using waste as animal bedding
- Veterinary medicines
- Woodchip corrals
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Materials and equipment used on construction sites
- Asphalt and road planings used in construction
- Concrete and grout
- Considerate constructors scheme
- Explosives used in construction
- Generators at construction sites
- Paint used on construction projects
- Plant maintenance on construction sites
- Plaster and plasterboard used in construction
- Plumbing
- Refueling on construction sites
- Reinforcement fixing at construction sites
- Road sweepers at construction sites
- Scaffolding on construction sites
- Using bentonite on construction sites
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More materials and equipment topics
- Adhesives used in manufacturing
- Boiler insulation materials
- Delivery, handling and storage of powdered materials
- Design and technology, craft and design materials for schools
- Dyes
- Fertilisers used in Forestry
- Fertilisers used in golf
- Green Chemistry
- Hire a skip for waste disposal
- Light bulbs and lamps
- Manfacturing and using detergents
- Medicines and medicine disposal
- Metal powders
- Preventing problems with Silos
- Public sector timber procurement policy
- Raw materials for paper production
- Recycling and disposing of plaster and plaster products
- Selling batteries
- Selling batteries and using them when manufacturing goods
- Selling chemicals - REACH
- Selling electrical and electronic goods
- Single use plastics
- Storing and handling food and drink
- Using chemicals for plastics and rubber processes
- Using fertilisers
- Wood and wood products: environmental issues
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More hazardous materials topics
- Agricultural chemicals: herbicides and pesticides
- Classifying and labelling chemicals
- Curing agents for leather manufacturers
- Fuel and fueling: storing oil, petrol and diesel
- Persistent organic pollutants
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
- Selling goods containing hazardous substances
- Selling goods containing radioactive isotopes
- Storing and using oil for agriculture
- Wood preservatives
- X-ray photochemicals
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Materials used by metal fabrication and finishing businesses
- Adhesives used by metal fabrication businesses
- Applying metalic coating to products
- Bluing baths
- Cutting and shaping metal products
- Degreasing solvents for metal finishing
- Degreasing solvents for surface treatment of metals
- Enamel application equipment
- Enamel slip materials
- Explosives
- Fluxing baths
- Jigging equipment for metal plating
- Mechanical finishing equipment
- Nickel coatings
- Non-metallic coating to prevent rust
- Sand in the metal casting process
- Shot and grit for blasting
- Using chemicals as stripping agents
- Using scrap metal when manufacturing MEEE
- Zinc coating using galvanising baths
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Batteries regulations
- Nuisances
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Permits, licences and exemptions
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Permits and licences - An overview
- Types of environmental licence
- Pollution prevention and control permits and waste management licences
- Authorisations and consents for discharges
- Trade effluent consents and agreements
- Water abstraction and impoundment authorisations
- Waste carrier, broker and dealer registration
- Hazardous/special waste notifications
- Radioactive substances authorisations
- Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) Permits
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PPC Permits by sector
- Does your agriculture business require a PPC permit?
- Does your chemical manufacturing business need a PPC permit?
- Does your education establishment require a PPC permit?
- Does your fabricated metal product business require a PPC permit?
- Does your food and drink business require a PPC permit?
- Does your healthcare business require a PPC permit?
- Does your leather business require a PPC permit?
- Does your life sciences business require a PPC permit?
- Does your machinery or electrical equipment business require a PPC permit?
- Does your metal production or processing business require a PPC permit?
- Does your mineral products business require a PPC permit?
- Does your mining or quarrying business require a PPC permit?
- Does your paper and cardboard business require a PPC permit?
- Does your printing and publishing business require a PPC permit?
- Does your recorded media business require a PPC permit?
- Does your recycling and reprocessing business require a PPC permit?
- Does your retail or wholesale business require a PPC permit?
- Does your road transport business require a PPC permit?
- Does your rubber and plastic business require a PPC permit?
- Does your surface treatment business require a PPC permit?
- Does your textiles and clothing business require a PPC permit?
- Does your vehicle repair business require a PPC permit?
- Does your waste or sewage business require a PPC permit?
- Does your wood or timber business require a PPC permit?
- Waste management licences
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Waste activities by sector
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for chemicals
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for MEEE
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for metals production
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for paper and cardboard
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for recycling and reprocessing
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for road transport
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for wood and wood products
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant for fabricated metal products
- Waste activities and waste mobile plant at waste or sewage
- Does your business need a permit, licence or exemption?
- Contact your environmental regulator
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Waste exemptions by sector
- Waste exemptions for agriculture
- Waste exemptions for chemicals
- Waste exemptions for fabricated metal products
- Waste exemptions for forestry
- Waste exemptions for hunting, shooting and game breeding
- Waste exemptions for landscaping
- Waste exemptions for MEEE
- Waste exemptions at metals production and processing
- Waste exemptions for mining or quarrying
- Waste exemptions for offices
- Waste exemptions for paper and cardboard
- Waste exemptions for recycling and reprocessing
- Waste exemptions for retail and wholesale
- Waste exemptions for road transport
- Waste exemptions for waste and sewage businesses
- Waste exemptions for wood and wood products
- Forestry grants and licences
- Inland fisheries licensing
- Licences and registrations for fish and shellfish farms
- Northern Ireland - Apply for a permit
- Sea fisheries regulators and licencing
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Permits and licences - An overview
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Guidance for Pollution Prevention (GPP) documents
- Guidance for Pollution Prevention (GPPs) - Full list
- GPP 1 Understanding your environmental responsibilities – good environmental practices
- GPP 2 Above ground oil storage
- GPP 3 Use and design of oil separators in surface water drainage systems
- GPP 4: Treatment and disposal of wastewater where there is no connection to the public foul sewer
- GPP 5: Works and maintenance in or near water
- PPG 6: Working at construction and demolition sites
- GPP 8: Safe storage and disposal of used oils
- GPP 13 Vehicle washing and cleaning
- GPP 19: Vehicles: Service and Repair
- GPP 20: Dewatering underground ducts and chambers
- GPP 21: Pollution incident response planning
- GPP 22: Dealing with spills
- GPP 24: Stables, kennels, catteries
- GPP 25 Hospitals and healthcare establishments
- GPP 26 Safe storage - drums and intermediate bulk containers
- PPG 27 Installation, decommissioning and removal of underground storage tanks
- GPP 29 Microbreweries and micro-distilleries
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Trade associations & BSOs
- Agriculture trade associations
- Animal boarding and care trade associations
- Chemical industry trade associations
- Construction trade associations
- Fabricated metal products trade associations
- Food and drink trade associations
- Forestry trade associations
- Healthcare trade associations
- Hospitality trade associations
- Hunting, shooting and game breeding trade associations
- Landscaping trade associations
- Leather trade associations
- MEEE trade associations
- Metals production and processing trade associations
- Mineral products trade associations
- Mining and quarrying trade associations
- Pest control trade associations
- Printing and publishing trade associations
- Recycling trade associations
- Retail and wholesale trade associations
- Road transport trade associations
- Rubber and plastic trade associations
- Textiles trade associations
- Vehicle repair and maintenance trade associations
- Waste and sewage trade associations
- Wood and wood products trade associations
- Fishing and aquaculture trade associations
- Life sciences useful links
- Education useful links
- Hair and Beauty Trade Associations
- Golf trade associations
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Transport
- Car parking
- Carriage of dangerous goods
- Refrigerated transport and equipment
- Travel plans for education
- Travel plans and green transport for offices
- Vehicle air-conditioning systems
- Vehicle cleaning (including wheel washing)
- Vehicle emissions
- Vehicle movements and deliveries at construction sites
- Vehicle refinishing products
- Useful links
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Waste
- Animal by-products and food waste
- Asbestos
- Burning waste - What you need to know
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Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- What is waste?
- What is the duty of care for waste?
- New waste duties for businesses in Northern Ireland
- New waste duties for businesses in Scotland
- Who can deal with your waste
- Waste Transfer Notes and how to complete them
- European Waste Catalogue (EWC) - waste codes
- Waste storage
- Controls on specific types of waste
- Landfill waste
- Carrying out waste management activities yourself
- Duty of Care for Waste Legislation
- End of life vehicles (ELVs)
- Fly-tipping
- Import and export of waste
- Operating your landfill site
- Hazardous / special waste
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- Waste carriers, brokers and dealers
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WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Businesses affected by the WEEE Regulations
- Equipment covered by the WEEE Regulations
- Producers of electrical and electronic equipment – What you must do
- Distributors of electrical and electronic equipment – What you must do
- Users of electrical and electronic equipment – What you must do
- Repairing, refurbishing and storing WEEE
- Treating and recycling WEEE
- Exporting WEEE
- Operating a WEEE producer compliance scheme
- Dealing with hazardous WEEE
- WEEE environmental legislation
- Waste site directories
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Storage, handling and transport of waste
- Find a reuse and recycling centre, or waste site, near you
- Receiving hazardous waste or receiving special waste
- Receiving waste or sewage
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- Segregation of healthcare or medical waste
- Site Waste Management Plans (SWMP)
- Storage & transport of waste
- Storing waste, wastewater or sewage
- Transporting mine or quarry waste
- Transporting waste, wastewater or sewage
- Waste & sewage landfill site operators
- Waste management plans for mines or quarries
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Managing waste materials
- Accommodation waste
- Agricultural Waste
- Anatomical waste
- Animal by-products from laboratories
- Animal carcass, dead animal removal
- Broken ceramics
- Canteen waste
- Clinical waste
- Cytotoxic and cytostatic drugs
- Demolition waste
- Disposal of dead animals including pets
- Disposal of waste at sea
- Disposal of waste in ports
- Disposing of waste by landspreading
- Excavated materials from construction sites
- Extractive waste from mines and quarries
- Farm animal incineration
- Fish waste disposal
- Fly-tipped rubbish
- Food waste and catering waste
- General waste and waste mobile plant at mines and quarries
- Horse manure
- Laboratory waste
- Managing customer waste at retail and wholesale businesses
- Non clinical waste from healthcare premises
- Offensive waste
- Pharmaceutical waste
- Sanitary waste
- Scrap metal
- Sewage sludge - Landspreading
- Sharps
- Single Use Plastics Ban
- Slurry, solid manure and silage effluent
- Used tyres, waste tyres
- Waste and sewage businesses: disposal of sewage sludge
- Waste batteries from your business
- Waste dental amalgam fillings
- Waste from forest management
- Waste from hair and beauty salons
- Waste oil, oil disposal
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Waste treatment processes
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Balers, compactors, crumbers, granulators and shredders for waste
- Battery recycling
- Burning and burying farm waste
- Burning construction and demolition waste
- Burning waste oil as fuel
- Chemical recycling for recycling and reprocessing businesses
- Chipping wood & other plant material
- Composting
- Composting catering waste
- Composting green waste
- Composting leachate
- Crushing bricks, tiles, concrete & other materials
- Crushing or grinding waste tiles or other ceramics
- Energy-from-waste at waste or sewage sites
- Oil recycling
- Plastic Recycling
- Quality recycling at MRFs
- Recovering chemical substances from waste
- Recycle & reprocessing scrap metals
- Recycling concrete
- Recycling construction materials
- Recycling your healthcare business waste
- Reducing & recycling waste from CD & DVD production
- Reusing waste cullet in glass manufacture
- Straw & stubble burning
- Treating & recycling waste batteries
- Treating & recycling Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
- Treating & recycling waste vehicles
- Treating hazardous / special waste
- Waste compactors
- Waste incineration plant operated by waste or sewage businesses
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Using Consignment Notes for Hazardous/Special Waste
- What is Hazardous/Special Waste and who is involved in its transfer?
- What you need when hazardous/special waste is removed from your site
- PRE-notification of movements of hazardous/special waste
- What does a consignment note look like?
- Different types of collection for hazardous/special waste
- How to complete a consignment note
- Waste from construction and demolition sites
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Water
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Preventing water pollution
- Causes of water pollution
- Regulation that protects surface water and groundwater in Northern Ireland
- Regulation that protects surface water and groundwater in Scotland
- Consents and authorisations you will need
- Notices that prevent and control water pollution
- Practical ways you can prevent water pollution
- Drainage system requirements to avoid pollution
- Water pollution legislation
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Septic tanks
- How septic tanks work
- What shouldn't go into a septic tank
- Maintaining your septic tank
- Register your septic tank
- What can go wrong with a septic tank
- New tanks - Planning waste water and sewage treatment
- Treatment of septic tank discharge where no soakaway is possible
- If a septic tank can't be installed on your site
- Septic tank legislation
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Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
- What are Sustainable Drainage Systems
- Using Sustainable Drainage Systems
- Green roofs in Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
- Filter strips and filter drains in Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) (1)
- Permeable paving in Sustainble Drainage Systems (SuDS)
- Swales in Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
- Detention basins, ponds and wetlands in Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) (1)
- Construction phase SuDS
- Management of silt from SuDS
- Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) - Further Information
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Trade effluent – Managing liquid wastes
- How to deal with Trade Effluent
- Disposal to a public sewer
- Dealing with effluent that cannot go to foul sewer
- Disposal to land where no public sewer is available
- Disposal to water where no public sewer is available
- Using septic tanks and package treatment plants
- Reducing and treating your trade effluent
- Avoiding spills and unauthorised effluent discharges
- Trade effluent environmental legislation
- Water use and efficiency
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More ways to prevent water pollution
- Acid mine drainage
- Bunds for fuel and chemical storage
- Controlling surface water runoff from works near water
- Dealing with silty water
- Dewatering your excavations on a construction site
- Discharges to water and sewer
- Drip trays; prevent spills
- Effluent treatement plants for food businesses
- Effluent treatement plants for leather businesses
- Effluent treatment plant for metal industries
- Freshwater cages for fish farming
- Golf machinery and equipment washing
- Groundwater protection during drilling and boring
- Irrigation for young trees
- Managing silt and sediment in discharges from quarries or mines
- Managing wastewater at paper and card manufacturing sites
- Marine cages for fish farming at sea
- Oil separators for use at construction sites
- Preventing water pollution from farm discharges to water
- Save water at hair and beauty salons
- Scottish Water by-laws
- Settlement tanks for removing silt from water
- Slurry from construction sites
- Stillwater fisheries
- Swimming and excercise pools
- Wastewater at mineral sites
- Water use and abstraction
- Wheel washing at construction sites
- Working close to water for construction businesses
- Working close to water for forestry operations
- Working close to water for golf course managers
- Working close to water for landscaping businesses
- Working close to watercourses
- Works in water - fisheries
- Yard runoff from your business
- Working close to water for demolition businesss
- Engineering in the water environment
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Control of water pollution from construction sites
- Bunds for oil and chemical storage on construction sites
- Controlling surface water runoff from works near water
- Dealing with silty water from construction sites
- Dewatering excavations on a construction site
- Oil Separators for construction sites
- Groundwater protection when drilling or boring on a construction site
- Sediment control using tanks or silt ponds on construction sites
- Slurry (liquid wastes) from construction sites
- Wheel washing on construction sites
- Working close to water for construction sites
- Construction phase SuDS
- Drip trays to prevent spills on site
- Working close to water for demolition businesses
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Preventing water pollution
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Air pollution
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Business Sectors
- Agriculture
- Animal boarding and care
- Chemicals manufacturing
- Construction
- Education
- Fabricated metal products
- Fishing and aquaculture
- Food and drink manufacture
- Forestry
- Golf
- Hair and Beauty
- Healthcare
- Hospitality, leisure and tourism
- Hunting, shooting and game breeding
- Landscaping
- Leather
- Life sciences
- Machinery, electrical equipment and electronics
- Metal production and processing
- Mineral products
- Mining and quarrying
- Offices
- Pest control
- Printing and publishing
- Pulp, paper and cardboard
- Recorded media
- Recycling and reprocessing
- Retail and wholesale
- Rubber and plastic products
- Sewage
- Surface treatment of metals
- Textiles and clothing
- Transport
- Vehicle repair and maintenance
- Waste businesses
- Wood and wood products
- Legislation
- A-Z of jobs
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Households
- Reuse of household goods
- Household materials: If you can’t reuse then recycle
- What do I do if the council doesn’t accept my waste?
- Neighbour problems: Noisy Neighbours, High hedges and other disputes
- Septic tanks
- Nuisance from local business - odours, noise etc
- Private burials
- Illegal waste dumping/fly tipping
- Getting households energy efficient – what to do and where to get help
- Covid-19 contminated waste (e.g. tissues etc)
- Is it pollution? What you might see at the seashore.
- Tools
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Blog
- Review of the Role of Incineration in the Waste Hierarchy
- Consultation on the draft Green Growth Strategy for Northern Ireland
- Consultation for the Reduction of Single-Use Plastic Beverage Cups and Food Containers in Northern Ireland
- NetRegs at Scotland Works and the ENDS Awards
- New developments at NetRegs
- Surplus food redistribution guidance
- One Planet Prosperity - Terry A'Hearn, SEPA CEO
- Construction sites and construction legislation
- Love Food Hate Waste workshops
- How to manage surface water drainage
- Health Care Without Harm
- NetRegs at the Balmoral Show
- River engineering - follow the rules to avoid a fixed monetary penalty
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- Good to Go – encourage customers to take uneaten food home
- Why you need a green team
- Sustainable farming practices
- Bonfires - What you need to know
- Why food and drink businesses should consider the sustainable supply chain
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- Generating your own renewable energy
- Environmental regulations: what they mean for you
- BREXIT 'No Deal' Guidance
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- How farmers can best manage air quality and ammonia levels
- Brewing and Distilling Technical Drop-in Day: Waste, Water, Energy
- A day with Hydrology
- My Year at NetRegs
- NetRegs: Supporting businesses across Scotland and Northern Ireland
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- Celebrating Businesses on #WorldEnvironmentDay2020
- Zero Waste Scotland launches food redistribution matchmaking service to connect suppliers with organisations in need
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- Thank You for Recycling
- EU Exit
- Groundwater in Northern Ireland
- Sustainability for the Future - "DAERA’s Plan to 2050"
- Draft 3rd Cycle River Basin Management Plan
- Environmental Plans, Principles and Governance for Northern Ireland – Synopsis of Responses
- Guidance - Noise and vibration management: environmental permits
- The Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator - applications welcome
- EU review of fluorinated greenhouse gas (“F-gas”) policy and legislation
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SEPA Special Waste Consignment Notes – updated position, The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is now accepting special waste consignment notes (SWCNs) by email only.
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