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How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
New approach puts an end to confusing recycling and excessive bins
This series brings together all documents relating to Waste and recycling statistics.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
We work with organisations across the UK that produce radioactive waste.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
How to dispose of household waste legally. Check your council’s website for bin collection, bulky waste collection. What you must do if using private companies
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Our mission is to deliver a geological disposal facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions. We are engaging with communities to inform our work.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
A director and his Manchester-based company have been hit with substantial fines following a significant breach of environmental regulations.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
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