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What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of waste or rubbish - report it to the local council or to Crimestoppers
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
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,...
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
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
Officers from the Environment Agency and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime visited two landfill sites in the north of England in a day of action.
How local authorities must deal with fly-tipping and the penalties they can charge.
How to deal with hazardous waste from your business in England - your duties, licences and registration, storage, collection and transport.
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.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Apps offering waste disposal services are a new and emerging risk - make sure you know your duty of care obligations.
Dstl’s incinerator facility near Salisbury provides a specialist disposal solution for hazardous or high security waste materials.
Learn more about the history, science and policy behind GDF
NDA's waste management strategy aims to protect people and the environment.
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