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This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
How to prepare and what to do if you’re affected by extreme weather and natural hazards while travelling or living abroad.
The D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
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.
What operators need to do in terms of submitting plans for radioactive waste disposal following our exit from Euratom and requirements under Article 37.
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.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
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.
The U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
The D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
Find answers to questions about space junk, the risk to satellites in orbit, and how space sustainability can help, as well as the UK Space Agency's work to address these issues.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
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