Journeys
Step-by-step business journeys
Follow our guided journeys to help you through major business milestones and changes.
Start a business 5
Planning and launching a new business venture
Start a renewable energy business
Launch a renewable energy generation business (solar, wind, hydrogen, battery storage)
Start journey →Starting a waste business
Complete compliance guide for waste transfer stations, treatment facilities, skip hire, and recycling centres. Covers environmental permits, waste carrier registration, and ongoing obligations.
Start journey →Set up a remediation business
Learning path for remediation and decontamination businesses. Work out which regulations apply, put your workplace foundations in place, meet your environmental, waste and construction duties and verify everything with a compliance checklist.
Start journey →Set up a sewerage business
Learning path for sewerage businesses — sewage collection, treatment and disposal. Work out which regulations apply, put your workplace foundations in place, meet your sewerage regulatory duties and verify everything with a compliance checklist.
Start journey →Set up a waste management operation
Learning path for new waste management operators — waste collectors, transfer station and treatment plant operators, materials recovery facilities and end-of-life vehicle dismantlers. Work out which rules apply, put a safe workplace in place, meet your activity-specific environmental and registration duties, and verify everything with a compliance checklist.
Start journey →Comply with regulations 2
Meeting legal, safety, environmental, and sector-specific requirements
Water Framework Directive compliance for businesses
Complete compliance pathway for businesses whose activities may affect water body status — from understanding the WFD framework through identifying which licences, permits, or consents you need, to applying, monitoring, and reporting. Covers England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Start journey →Responding to environmental enforcement
What to do if you receive an enforcement notice or warning letter from an environmental regulator. Covers types of enforcement action, immediate steps, appeal rights, and demonstrating improvement.
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