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About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
This page gives an overview of Disposability Assessment, its aims and how it supports the safe management of Higher Activity Radioactive Waste (HAW) in the UK.
This page provides introductory information on waste packages for the geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste in the UK.
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.
U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
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…
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
Principles of optimisation in the management and disposal of radioactive waste from radioactive substances activities.
Poster and online artwork for retailers.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste wood.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
Document how you’ve collected your non-UK suppliers’ household electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces as defined in the amended waste EEE regulations must submit a me…
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
When aggregate made from steel slag is no longer waste.
Design, construction and quality assurance of earthworks in landfill engineering.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
Industry guidance on the interim storage of Higher Activity Waste packages and integrated approach.
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