National Recovery Guidance: environmental issues
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Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 29
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Overview
- Animal health and welfare
- Background and context
- Animal health: guidance for England
- Animal health and welfare in the devolved territories
- Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
- Dealing with waste
- Waste: UK policy and guidance
- Licensing
- Duty of care
- Immediate responsibility for clearing waste
- Subsequent transportation of waste
- Hazardous waste
- Oily waste (marine spills)
Source and licence
Cabinet Office
AttributionCabinet Office, ‘National Recovery Guidance: environmental issues’ (updated 21 February 2013), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026