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First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Environment Agency survey of informed stakeholders suggests 18% of all waste in England may be illegally managed
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
You need a licence from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to treat, keep, or dispose of waste in Scotland
Sussex companies fined
Our mission is to deliver a geological disposal facility and provide radioactive waste management solutions. We are engaging with communities to inform our work.
Dstl’s incinerator facility near Salisbury provides a specialist disposal solution for hazardous or high security waste materials.
19 waste codes are from waste management facilities, off-site waste water treatment plants and the preparation of water intended for human consumption and water for industrial use. Your permit lists the 19 waste codes you can use. You must follow...
You need approval from the Environment Agency before you deposit waste over completed cells that have permanently stopped taking waste.
Updated approach to managing nuclear waste for quicker, safe decommissioning.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
These are waste minimisation, recovery and disposal appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
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.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Health issues associated with vulnerability to poor solid waste management, especially among workers directly exposed to these wastes to these wastes.
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