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    • Environmental Topics
      • Air pollution
        • Fluorinated gases (F-gases)
          • 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
          • What is the 2020 refrigeration F-gas ban?
          • Certificates for working with F-gas / Ozone Depleting Substances in the European Union after the end of the Brexit transition period
          • Bans on new refrigeration equipment from 1 Jan 2022
        • Improving air quality
          • Refrigeration and air conditioning
          • 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
          • Evaporative cooling towers
          • Degreasing solvents used in manufacturing
          • Energy and steam generation
          • Fume hoods or laboratory cupboards
          • Furnaces
          • Solvents and adhesives for leather businesses
        • Ozone depleting substances (ODS)
          • What are ozone-depleting substances?
          • Stationary refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps: ODS controls
          • Fire protection equipment
          • Solvent cleaning
          • Specialist uses of ODS
          • How ODS regulations are enforced
          • ODS Legislation
        • 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 pollution environmental legislation
          • Air Quality Management Areas and Smoke Control Areas
          • Driving in Low Emission Zones in Scotland
        • 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
        • 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
      • Carbon reduction and efficiency
        • Biofuels for transport
          • What are biofuels?
          • Biofuel suppliers
          • Producing your own biodiesel
          • Producing your own bioethanol or biogas
          • Do you need a permit or authorisation to produce biofuel?
          • Storing and transporting biofuel
          • Biofuels for transport - further information
          • Biofuels environmental legislation
        • Buying eco-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
        • 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
          • What is Combined Heat and Power?
          • What are the benefits of Combined Heat and Power?
          • Who can benefit from Combined Heat and Power?
          • Different types of CHP systems for businesses
          • Combined Heat and Power maintenance
          • Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance Scheme
        • The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
          • What is happening to the CRC Scheme now?
        • 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
          • Energy labelling: Which products does it apply to?
          • Energy labelling requirements
          • Ecodesign: What products does it apply to?
          • Ecodesign requirements
          • Energy labelling legislation
          • Ecodesign of energy-related products legislation
        • Environmental tax obligations and breaks
          • Climate change levy
          • Climate change agreements
          • Enhanced capital allowances
          • Landfill tax
          • Vehicle tax and fuel duty
          • Aggregates levy
          • Tax relief for restoring contaminated or derelict land
          • Plastic packaging tax
        • Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
        • EU Emissions Trading Scheme (UK Emissions Trading Scheme)
          • What is emissions trading?
          • Help with reducing your emissions
        • Generate renewable energy
          • Benefits of using renewable energy
          • Generating income from renewable energy
          • Renewable energy considerations
          • Wind energy
          • Biomass and anaerobic digestion
          • Solar energy
          • Geothermal energy and ground source heat pumps
          • Hydroelectric power
        • More about carbon reduction
          • Carbon emissions, greenhouse gases
          • Eco-schools
          • Farming and climate change
          • Sustainable procurement practices for education
          • Hair and Beauty - reducing environmental impacts
          • Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
          • Building renovation or restoration
          • Managing environmental performance
          • Providing environmental information to your customers, take back schemes and other initiatives
          • Retail and wholesale: managing your environmentl performance
          • Managing your environmental performance for transport businesses
          • Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
        • 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)
        • Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme
          • What is the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS)
          • Customers – how will the DRS affect you?
          • Drinks producers – what you must do
          • Retailers - what you must do
          • Hospitality sector – what you must do
          • Drinks wholesalers - what you must do
      • Case studies and videos
        • Case Studies
          • Combined Heat and Power
          • Construction
          • Education
          • Fishing and aquaculture
          • Food and drink manufacture
          • Oil and Gas decommissioning
          • Recycling and Reprocessing
          • Retail and Wholesale
          • Transport
          • Environmental management systems - CMS Windows
          • Environmental management systems - Ross-Shire Engineering
        • Case Study Videos
          • Air pollution
          • Carbon reduction and efficiency
          • Emergency response
          • Environmental management
          • Land
          • Materials, fuels and equipment
          • Transport and travel
          • Waste and resources
          • Water and efficiency
          • Circular economy
      • Checklists
      • Emergency response
        • COMAH
          • Who COMAH applies to
          • COMAH regulated site responsibilities
          • COMAH environmental legislation
        • Environmental damage
          • What is environmental damage?
          • Preventing environmental damage
          • Remediation of environmental damage
          • Preventing and dealing with environmental pollution: legislation
        • Manage flood risk
          • Is your business at risk of flooding?
          • Preparing your business for flooding
          • Insure your business against flood damage
          • Dealing with floods - the aftermath
          • Flooding: Who does what?
        • Pollution incident response planning
          • Pollution incident response plans
          • Good practice to prevent pollution
          • Prevent pollution from firefighting
        • 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
      • Environmental management
        • Adapt to Climate Change
        • 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
        • 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
        • Manage and improve your environmental performance
          • Produce a policy statement
          • Ensure legal compliance
          • Implement an environmental management system (EMS)
          • Manage your purchases to minimise your environmental impact
          • Prepare for the circular economy
          • Communicate with your staff
          • Report on your environmental perfomance
        • Manage the environmental performance of your golf facility
        • Management toolkit for SMEs - Northern Ireland
        • Management toolkit for SMEs - Scotland
        • Smallholder's environmental checklist
      • Guidance for Pollution Prevention (GPP) documents
        • 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
        • GPP 6: Working on 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
        • GPP 27 Installation, decommissioning and removal of underground storage tanks
        • GPP 29 Microbreweries and micro-distilleries
      • Land
        • Contaminated land
          • What is 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
        • Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and other invasive weeds
          • Invasive plants - Your legal responsibilities in Northern Ireland
          • Non-Native plants - 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
        • Land managment topics for forestry
          • Forest management: archaeological sites
          • Constructing forest roads and paths
          • Gathering and picking wild plants, fungi and fruits
          • Harvesting trees
          • Forest management for biodiversity and conservation
          • Short rotation coppice
        • Land topics - biodiversity, land access, rules for hunting, pest control
          • Biodiversity for the education sector
          • Coastal erosion
          • Community empowerment and land reform in Scotland
          • Fly tipping: illegal dumping of waste
          • Hunting with dogs and deer stalking
          • Rights of way and access to the countryside
          • Lead ammunition for hunting and shooting
          • Listed buildings
          • Pest control
        • Land topics for agriculture
          • Actions to help pollinators
          • Codes of good agricultural practice
          • Cross compliance and agri-environment schemes
          • Manage your soils when growing crops
          • Land management and soil protection
          • Land management and agri-environment schemes for hunting and shooting businesses
          • Northern Ireland: Nutrient action programme (NAP) 2019-2022
          • Scotland: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ)
        • Land topics for construction sites
          • Archaeological finds on construction sites
          • Dealing with contaminated land on construction sites
          • Excavating and installing pipework on a construction site
          • Soil contamination and its impacts on construction works
          • Nature conservation and affecting public rights of way for construction sites
          • Site investigation and sampling to identify contaminated land
          • Soils and soil stripping
        • Land topics for mining and quarrying businesses
          • Aggregates levy
          • Closing mines and quarries
          • Managing voids, such as mines and mineshafts
          • Nature conservation at mines and quarries
        • 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
        • Smallholders
          • Look after soil
          • Protecting water
          • Animals/livestock
          • Crops
          • Managing waste
          • Your buildings
          • Machinery, equipment and fuel
          • Protect biodiversity
          • Small scale forestry
          • Business management tools
          • Deal with emergencies
          • Further information and support
      • Materials, fuels and equipment
        • 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
        • 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
        • Managing Radioactive Substances
          • What are radioactive substances?
          • Radioactive materials out of scope of the regulations
          • Regulation of radioactive substances in Northern Ireland
          • Regulation of radioactive substances in Scotland
          • Other radioactive substances regulations
          • Radioactive substances environmenal legislation
        • 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
        • 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
        • 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
        • 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
        • 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
          • Hire a skip for waste disposal
          • Light bulbs and lamps
          • Manfacturing and using detergents
          • Medicines and medicine disposal
          • Metal powders
          • Metal working
          • 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
        • Oil and Fuel Storage
          • Who do oil and fuel storage controls apply to?
          • Where to locate your oil/fuel storage container
          • Requirements for your oil or fuel storage container
          • Secondary containment systems (Bunding)
          • Pipework and fittings for oil or fuel storage
          • Mobile bowsers for oil and fuel
          • Maintaining your oil and fuel storage containers
          • Prevent pollution: dealing with oil and fuel spills
          • Oil and fuel storage - Further information
          • Oil/Fuel storage environmental legislation
        • 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
          • Extended Producer Responsibility
          • Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland
          • Packaging: environmental legislation
        • Pathogens from laboratories and production facilities
          • Working with animal pathogens
          • Working with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
          • Working with pathogens in laboratories: Protecting your workforce
        • 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
        • Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
          • Does the REACH Regulation apply to your business?
          • Manufacturers and importers of chemicals: REACH responsibilities
          • Distributors and users of chemicals: REACH responsibilities
          • REACH - Substances of very high concern and restricted chemicals
          • REACH legislation
        • RoHS: Restrictions on hazardous substances
          • Businesses affected by the RoHS Regulations
          • How to comply with the RoHS Regulations
          • How the RoHS Regulations are enforced
          • RoHS legislation
      • Nuisances
        • Noise, odour and other nuisances
          • Types of nuisance
          • Good practice to avoid causing nuisance
          • Noise and vibration nuisances
          • Odour, dust and smoke nuisances
          • Litter nuisances
          • Artificial light nuisance
          • Construction site nuisances
          • Environmental legislation for nuisances
        • Nuisance from dust, insects, noise, odour and pathogens
          • Dust nuisance
          • Dust and smoke from waste sites
          • Prevent dust from construction sites
          • Insects and rodents
          • Prevent nuisances from noise at construction sites
          • Prevent odour nuisances from your farm
          • Pathogens at waste sites
          • Flying insects and rodent pests at waste sites
      • Permits, licences and exemptions
        • Contact your environmental regulator
        • Does your business need a permit, licence or exemption?
        • Forestry grants and licences
        • Inland fisheries licensing
        • Licences and registrations for fish and shellfish farms
        • Northern Ireland - Apply for a permit
        • 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
          • What is pollution prevention and control?
          • Do you need a pollution prevention and control permit?
          • Pollution prevention and control permits: What do you need to do?
          • Pollution prevention and control permits legislation
          • List of activities covered by PPC
          • Does your business type need a PPC permit?
        • 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?
        • Sea fisheries regulators and licencing
        • 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
        • 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
        • Waste management licences
          • About waste management licences
          • Waste management licensing exemptions
          • How do you apply for a waste management licence?
          • Transferring, modifying, varying and surrendering a waste management licence
          • Application forms and guidance for waste management licensing
          • Waste management licensing legislation
        • Northern Ireland: Construction sites: Permits, Authorisations Licences. (Know your PALs)
        • Scotland: Construction site Permits, Authorisations and Licences. (Know your PALs)
        • Water authorisations - Overview
          • Do you need a water authorisation
          • What you must do if you hold a water authorisation
          • How to apply for a water authorisation
          • Application forms and guidance for water authorisations
          • Application and subsistence fees
          • Check if you need any other permissions
          • Transferring, varying and surrendering a water authorisation
          • Guidance for sewage discharge activities in Northern Ireland and Scotland
        • Water authorisations by sector or activity
          • Water authorisations for sewage discharge activities - Scotland
          • Water authorisations for sewage discharges - Northern Ireland
      • Trade associations & BSOs
        • Agriculture trade associations
          • Further guidance and useful links for agriculture
        • Animal boarding and care trade associations
        • Chemical industry trade associations
        • Construction trade associations
          • Further guidance and resources for construction
        • Education useful links
          • Resources for further and higher education
          • Resources for schools
          • Resources for pre-school
        • Fabricated metal products trade associations
        • Fishing and aquaculture trade associations
        • Food and drink trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Forestry trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Golf trade associations
        • Hair and Beauty Trade Associations
        • Healthcare trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Hospitality trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Hunting, shooting and game breeding trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Landscaping trade associations
        • Leather trade associations
        • Life sciences useful links
        • MEEE trade associations
        • Metals production and processing trade associations
        • Mineral products trade associations
        • Mining and quarrying trade associations
          • Useful links
        • Pest control trade associations
        • Printing and publishing trade associations
        • Recycling trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Retail and wholesale trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Road transport trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Rubber and plastic trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Textiles trade associations
        • Vehicle repair and maintenance trade associations
        • Waste and sewage trade associations
          • Further guidance
        • Wood and wood products trade associations
          • Further guidance
      • Transport
        • Car parking
        • Carriage of dangerous goods
        • Refrigerated transport and equipment
        • Travel plans and green transport for offices
        • Travel plans for education
        • Vehicle air-conditioning systems
        • Vehicle cleaning (including wheel washing)
        • Vehicle emissions
        • Vehicle movements and deliveries at construction sites
        • Vehicle refinishing products
      • Useful links
        • Agriculture
        • Construction resources
        • Dairy Processing sector
        • Fishing and aquaculture
        • Mining and quarrying
        • Resources for further and higher education
        • Resources for pre-schools
        • Resources for schools
      • Waste
        • Animal by-products and food waste
          • What are animal by-products?
          • Categories of animal by-products
          • Disposing of animal by-products
          • Animal carcass disposal
          • Disposing of food waste and catering waste
          • Transporting animal by-products
          • Handling and storage of animal by-products
          • Animal by-products and food waste environmental legislation
        • Asbestos
          • Asbestos - What is it?
          • Where is asbestos found in buildings?
          • How to identify Asbestos
          • Working with Asbestos
          • Asbestos disposal
          • Asbestos environmental legislation
        • Burning waste - What you need to know
          • Controls on burning waste in the open
          • Requirements of the Waste Incineration Directive
          • Controls on types of waste burning units
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