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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
How the Digital waste tracking helpdesk will use and manage your personal data.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of dry cleaning.
Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for waste wood combustion.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
DSS Part A: High Level Requirements and DSS Part B: Technical Specification
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.
National Geological Screening for a GDF - Northern England
Regional information from our screening work, and its relevance to the siting of a GDF
This page explains how Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is working to achieve safe management and disposal of Higher Activity Waste (HAW) in the UK.
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.
U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
This page provides introductory information on waste packages for the geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste in the UK.
The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
Use the ship recycling facility plan template to apply for your ship recycling authorisation.
RSR RGN2 provides an overview of the regulation of radioactive substances on nuclear sites.
Guidance about environmental permit conditions for radioactive substances activities on nuclear licensed sites and how operators should comply.
Publishing dates for packaging data.
End of waste criteria for the production of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
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