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How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
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.
Appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation, transfer and handling.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
The results of a review of the different options available for pre-treatment of waste prior to landfilling.
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
The U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
NDA's waste management strategy aims to protect people and the environment.
Appropriate measures for waste pre-acceptance, acceptance and tracking.
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