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The Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is the UK’s principal facility for the disposal of low level radioactive waste.
T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
T29 exemption allows farmers, landscapers and other land managers to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings produced during their work.
The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
RSR RGN2 provides an overview of the regulation of radioactive substances on nuclear sites.
Principles of optimisation in the management and disposal of radioactive waste from radioactive substances activities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
Environment Agency’s progress on revising the waste quality protocols.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store waste shells for nature restoration
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing dead wild animals collected from highways and public areas, where there’s no known or suspected infectious disease risk.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.
Guidance to developers of geological disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
Find out when chapters 2 and 4 of the directive apply to a waste incinerator, co-incinerator or small waste incineration plant.
Understand the European Community (EC) directive 2006/12/EC6 on waste (Waste Framework Directive).
MCERTS: competency standard for MCERTS inspectors and assistant inspectors - effluent flow and event duration monitoring.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
How to calculate and maintain a financial provision for a Category A mining waste facility under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016.
Work out the toxic equivalency factors of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) to calculate their concentration.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
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