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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.
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,...
The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of waste or rubbish - report it to the local council or to Crimestoppers
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
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.
A guide for communities on how the UK plans to deal with its radioactive waste on a long-term basis and the process for identifying a site for a geological disposal facility.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
A North East man has been banned from being a company director for three years after his company dumped asbestos contaminated waste on land in Northumberland.
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
This section describes the mechanisms that control the collection, transport, treatment, storage and disposal of waste.
Solid waste and faecal sludge management in humanitarian emergencies are important to public health
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.
This brief examines a low-carbon waste management infrastructure - a waste to energy landfill - in Monterrey, Mexico
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.
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