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We work with organisations across the UK that produce 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).
This page provides introductory information on waste packages for the geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste in the UK.
When aggregate made from steel slag is no longer waste.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can temporarily exceed the waste wood storage limit in your environmental permit.
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 provides the performance standards for open path ambient air quality monitoring systems.
MCERTS performance standard is for laboratories undertaking radioanalytical testing of water.
Guidance to developers or operators of near-surface disposal facilities for solid radioactive waste.
Guidance for packaging producers on 2025 recyclability assessments and implications for 2026-2027 modulated fees.
When recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard is no longer waste.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage of food, source segregated waste and mixed municipal waste at a collection point.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing suspended solids at construction sites.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
Environment Agency regulatory position on accepting separately collected household packaging waste at Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) when 15 01 waste codes are not in your environmental permit.
Guidance on setting limits and levels on discharges of gaseous and liquid radioactive waste from nuclear licensed sites in England and Wales.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for electrical furnaces.
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