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We have more than 10 years’ experience of successfully working with our customers to develop solutions across the radioactive waste lifecycle and provide access to the full range of treatment, logistics, and disposal techniques and technology in the UK, Europe,...
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
Arrange a special collection for large waste items - most councils will collect things like old sofas, fridges or washing machines for a fee
Get the Environment Agency’s opinion on if a material is a by-product or meets 'end of waste' status. The service costs £125 an hour including VAT.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
Arrange for the collection of garden waste by your council
Your responsibilities, hazardous waste and report an environmental incident
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
Find out what help you can get from your council to dispose of hazardous and toxic waste
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Our mission is to deliver a geological disposal facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions. We are engaging with communities to inform our work.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) - retailer and wholesaler responsibilities, waste collection and compliance schemes.
Setting out the progress being made on the GovTech waste tracking challenge, to build the UK's first comprehensive digital waste tracking system.
Arrange for a collection of clinical waste - for items like used syringes, drugs, pharmaceuticals and surgical waste
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) provides independent scrutiny and transparent advice to the UK governments on the long-term management of higher activity radioactive wastes. CoRWM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Energy Security...
Nuclear Waste Services brings together the UK’s leading nuclear waste management capabilities Nuclear Waste Services works with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority .
Reports about the regulatory scrutiny of Nuclear Waste Services' work on the geological disposal of radioactive waste.
Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes
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