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This guidance will help anyone understand their obligations in relation to hazardous waste and the waste hierarchy.
Using the integrated management prospectus to demonstrate organisational capability by operators of nuclear licensed sites.
This programme will support development of technologies and techniques that may enable future UK access to medical radionuclides.
Details on when waste rules apply to your material, import and export implications and the UK environmental regulators.
Guidance about environmental permit conditions for radioactive substances activities on nuclear licensed sites and how operators should comply.
Considerable savings can be made by adopting simple cost-effective techniques for minimising industrial waste during the production processes.
Environment Agency regulatory position on using non-waste absorbents to solidify saturated soils and slurry wastes produced during construction and excavation works.
Standard rules and generic risk assessment for managing extractive waste.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and physically treat hazardous metal shredder residues without the correct waste codes on your permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing waste coffee pods.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and use waste fire extinguishers to train people to fight fires.
Environment Agency regulatory position on discharging waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into a wastewater treatment works where your permit contains a POPs exclusion.
DSS Part A: High Level Requirements and DSS Part B: Technical Specification
Who, what, why and where
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
The UK’s policy on the import and export of radioactive waste and spent fuel has not changed, but there are some changes to the processes that operators need to follow.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept shredded electronic storage media at permitted hazardous waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) sites where waste code 19 02 04* is not on your permit.
Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for waste wood combustion.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for film coating.
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