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A report that provides information on the reuse, recycling and composting of municipal waste.
You may need an environmental permit if your business uses, recycles, treats, stores or disposes of waste or mining waste.
The Waste Metric Dashboard summarises progress on the diversion of waste away from disposal to the LLW Repository and on the environmental performance of the National Waste Programme.
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...
This paper sets out the key principles for public policy interventions in waste.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Defra consulted on a proposed amendment to the UK Plan for Shipments of Waste ("the UK Plan") to allow the export of contaminated sediments from the River Tyne for disposal.
View the permit issued for The CSWDC Waste to Energy Plant, Coventry under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
The current position of CoRWM on safety concerns regarding a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF).
Our annual report and accounts 2018-2019 review a year of progress on our mission to deliver a Geological Disposal Facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions.
A report that provides information on household and non-household waste such as disposal, reuse, recycling and composting rates.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
This document contains the following information: Managing radioactive waste safely: a framework for implementing geological disposal
First published during the 2005 to 2010 Labour government
The current position of CoRWM on the indefinite storage of radioactive waste.
A key programme of work at the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria is making real progress
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
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