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By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
The UK’s policy on the import and export of radioactive waste and spent fuel has not changed, but there are some changes to the processes that operators need to follow.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of dry cleaning.
Understand Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
This document details the requirements for a laboratory undertaking the chemical testing of soil and the procurer of analytical services to the MCERTS performance standard.
This document sets out what you must do if you want to get accreditation from us to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
The LLWR Socio-economic Fund provides support to local initiatives/groups within a 30-mile radius of the Repository Site.
The T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
This Good Practice Guide (GPG) has been developed by Jacobs on behalf of the NDA to identify and facilitate consistent application of good practice within the nuclear industry regarding the characterisation of solid radioact…
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat waste paper, cardboard and plastic for the purpose of recovery.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
This document covers the use of geomembranes in landfill engineering and was originally developed with the British Geomembrane Association.
Exemption, notification, registering and licensing of radioactive substances and radiation generators in the UK.
The T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
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