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How to spot chronic wasting disease (CWD), what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
Environment Agency and Environmental Services Association (ESA) relaunch joint Waste Industry Placement Scheme
Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes
You must: keep waste to a minimum by doing everything you reasonably can…
You must store waste safely and securely. To do this: store waste in a…
For each load of non-hazardous waste you move off your premises, you need…
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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.
This series brings together all documents relating to Waste and recycling statistics.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
The Waste Metric Dashboard summarises progress on the diversion of waste away from disposal to the LLW Repository and on the environmental performance of the National Waste Programme.
Nuclear waste reaches the end of the line, making it safer, sooner.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
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,...
Setting out the progress being made on the GovTech waste tracking challenge, to build the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking system.
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 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.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
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.
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