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This form helps people to exercise their rights under the Community Right to Reclaim Land to bring disused property back into beneficial use.
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.
How to check if your waste is international catering waste (ICW) and how to store, transport and dispose of it.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
The UK government is committed to implementing geological disposal for the safe and secure management of higher-activity radioactive waste over the long term.
Reports about the regulatory scrutiny of Nuclear Waste Services' work on the geological disposal of radioactive waste.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
Apps offering waste disposal services are a new and emerging risk - make sure you know your duty of care obligations.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
Details on how to dispose of your unwanted distress flares.
This page contains Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications and Guidance for waste packages destined for geological disposal.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Tell the Environment Agency how you'll dispose of cleaning and disinfection washwater after an animal disease outbreak, for example, salmonella.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
What operators need to do in terms of submitting plans for radioactive waste disposal following our exit from Euratom and requirements under Article 37.
How to work out the balancing charge when you dispose of or sell plant or machinery after claiming allowances for them.
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