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Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is gathering information to understand if the current Search Areas could be suitable to host a GDF.
An overview of the UK regulatory framework for all aspects of radiological and civil nuclear safety across the UK.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
Local authority permits for Part A (2) installations and small waste incineration plant, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling site.
These rules allow you to bulk up and temporarily store waste electrical insulating oils away from the site where they were produced.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
Essential information for Welsh communities on how to get involved
T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
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.
When you do not need an environmental permit for an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant.
This document sets out the performance standard for indicative ambient dust monitors.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for certain types of permanently installed continuous water monitors (CWMs) used for the monitoring of treated wastewater discharges from industrial proces…
The end of waste criteria for the production and use of quality compost from source-segregated biodegradable waste.
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