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U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Large producers can check packaging that is commonly collected or has limited collection at kerbside by UK local authorities.
Guidance for operators, test laboratories and equipment suppliers on the quality assurance of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
How to separate, store, transport and dispose of international catering waste (ICW).
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Guidance for local authorities on the consistent use of their litter enforcement powers.
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
The safe, secure, and long-term solution for the most hazardous radioactive waste in the UK.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle maintenance and dismantling activities.
Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Guidance on interpreting the legislation on radioactive substances in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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