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All specifications for the packaging of all Higher Activity Waste (HAW)
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
Guidance for the aviation sector on how to separate recyclable waste from international catering waste (ICW).
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
National Geological Screening for a GDF - Wealden District region
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a metal recycling and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) authorised treatment facility at a specified location.
Standard rules to allow you to operate a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
This page introduces Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications (WPS) and Guidance for waste packages intended for geological disposal.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
Guidance on the monitoring of bioaerosols from stacks, open biofilters and in ambient air.
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