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The Controlled Activities Regulations regulate activities in and affecting Scotland's water environment. Such activities, including impoundments, abstractions and discharges, are regulated at three levels, relative to the risk which each activity poses to the environment. Low risk activities do not require any form of authorisation from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and must simply comply with a set of mandatory rules known as General Binding Rules (GBRs).

Following public consultation at the beginning of 2011, amendments are finally being implemented to improve the Contaminated Land Regime in England and Wales.

New Environmental Permitting Regulations come into force in England and Wales on 6 April 2012.

Find out what amendments they make, and how they may affect your permit or exempt operation.

Has the traditional paper-based Waste Transfer Note had its day?

Reconomy's Brian Marshall examines the existing Waste Transfer Note process and looks at the investment currently being undertaken in EDOC, the Electronic Duty of Care system being developed by the Environment Agency and its partner organisations.

The waste hierarchy came into force for all business from 28th September 2011 as part of Government plans to target a zero waste culture within the UK.

Reconomy's Brian Marshall gives a brief outline of the hierarchy and explains the process behind it: