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Standard rules to allow storage of wastes to be used in land treatment.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
This page describes standard package designs for Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW).
Waste codes for common wastes produced by mechanical treatment at a waste management facility.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
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.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
UKHSA reviewed recent evidence on the potential health effects from municipal waste incinerator emissions. This work builds on previously carried out evidence reviews.
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste institutional mattresses containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Sampling and chemical testing of untreated sewage, treated sewage effluents and trade effluents.
Standard rules to store, or store and treat end-of-life tyres for the purpose of waste recovery.
This page provides introductory information on Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW) packages.
How and when you can seize a vehicle to investigate a waste crime.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
Tool to assist groundwater risk assessment for treated effluent discharges to infiltration systems.
Standard rules SR2015 No 14: 75kte metal recycling site.
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