Find Environmental Permits authorising discharges of potentially polluting liquids into or onto the ground, or into the surface waters.

Find Environmental Permits issued to organisations keeping or using radioactive substances or storing or disposing of radioactive waste.

Find activities in, over, under or near a main river or sea defence that are exempt from needing an environmental permit.

Find people or businesses registered as Waste Carriers, Brokers or Dealers, allowing them to transport, buy, sell, or dispose of waste, or to arrange for someone else to do so.

Find waste operations exempt from needing an environmental permit. Specific limits and conditions apply.

Some low-risk water discharge and groundwater activities can be exempt from requiring a permit if they meet certain conditions. Some of these 'exemptions' require the activity to be registered. This register details exempt activities which have been registered with the Environment Agency. It is worth noting that most entries in this register are for small sewage discharges which are no longer required to be registered. Consequently, most of the entries are for activities which were registered before the requirement to register them changed. There are some exempt activities which still require registration, for example groundwater tracer tests.

Find Environmental Permits allowing operators to use, recycle, treat, store, or dispose of waste or mining waste. The permit can be for activities at one site or for a mobile plant used at many sites.

Find Environmental Permits for industrial installations such as refineries, food and drink factories or those performing intensive farming activities such as large-scale chicken farms.

Search for people or businesses who trade in scrap metal and are licensed by their Local Authority.

Find Authorised Treatment Sites (ATF) depolluting and dismantling End of Life Vehicles (ELV)..