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We have more than 10 years’ experience of successfully working with our customers to develop solutions across the radioactive waste lifecycle and provide access to the full range of treatment, logistics, and disposal techniques and technology in the UK, Europe,...
Our mission is to deliver a geological disposal facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions. We are engaging with communities to inform our work.
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
We work with organisations across the UK that produce radioactive waste.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Developing new waste management capability and opportunities to work group-wide as part of a broader integration programme to underpin the NDA’s and nation’s strategy of a more joined-up approach to waste management.
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) - retailer and wholesaler responsibilities, waste collection and compliance schemes.
Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
This series brings together all documents relating to Waste and recycling statistics.
Dstl’s incinerator facility near Salisbury provides a specialist disposal solution for hazardous or high security waste materials.
LLWR Ltd. manage the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensure that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
Nuclear waste reaches the end of the line, making it safer, sooner.
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