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The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for certain types of portable water monitors (PWMs).
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…
The end of waste criteria for the production and use of quality compost from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
Guidance on setting limits and levels on discharges of gaseous and liquid radioactive waste from nuclear licensed sites in England and Wales.
Design, construction and quality assurance of earthworks in landfill engineering.
Guidance to developers of geological disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
Where and how to contact Nuclear Waste Services
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
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 U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
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