Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Agriculture guidance
This guidance is for anyone working in farming and agricultural businesses in Scotland and Northern Ireland, including livestock and arable farmers, landowners and contractors.
- Air pollution
- Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Emergency response
- Environmental management
- Land
- Materials and equipment
- Nuisances
- Permits and licences
- Trade associations and BSOs
- Transport
- Waste
- Water
- Agricultural pesticides
- Animal bedding
- Animal & bird feed
- Fertilisers - Chemical & man made
- Chemical storage
- Farming non-native species - aquaculture
- Feed delivery & storage
- Fuelling & fuel storage
- Maintaining farm machinery
- Oil storage
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Pesticides and biocides
- Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
- Sheep dip
- Silage
- Storing slurry
- Storing & using oil for agriculture
- Veterinary medicines
- Woodchip corrals
- Agricultural waste
- Anaerobic digestion
- Animal by-products and food waste
- Asbestos
- Farm waste - burying and burning
- Burning waste - What you need to know
- Carcass burial by agricultural businesses
- Carcass disposal
- Carcass incineration
- Composting
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- End of life vehicles (ELVs)
- Hazardous / special waste
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Waste site directories
- Waste Transfer Note
- Agricultural Waste
- Fly-tipped rubbish
- Horse manure
- Sewage sludge - Landspreading
- Disposing of waste by landspreading
- Waste oil, oil disposal
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Waste – Duty of Care Roles and Responsibilities
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https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/waste-duty-care-responsibilities
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EIA (Agriculture) Regulations for Northern Ireland
Any person intending to alter the use or management of areas of uncultivated or semi-natural land must obtain prior approval from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
Read more on the DAERA website
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