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This page provides a list of acronyms used in the Waste Package Guidance produced by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS).
Design, construction and quality assurance of earthworks in landfill engineering.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
This guidance is intended to help the regulator, the regulated community, and others with an interest in groundwater activities.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown, when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
What businesses need to do to import ‘relevant’ nuclear materials into the UK.
Sources of radioactivity in the environment and how levels of radioactivity are monitored and assessed.
The Environment Agency’s role in the development and regulation of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
Check if an item of WEEE or a component removed from WEEE is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
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