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This document is the UK strategy for the management of solid LLW arising from the non-nuclear industry, and is primarily aimed at non-nuclear…
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 amends 12 domestic waste regulations, which implement different European directives related to waste management to ensure that the waste regime can continue to operate effectively after the UK leaves the...
This guidance is to understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2006/12/EC on waste, as it relates to permitting waste operations in England and Wales.
This report considers each of the Joint Convention’s obligations and explains how the UK addresses them.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This is a quarterly publication which reports provisional figures on the key measurements of local authority collected municipal waste for councils and waste management groups in Northern Ireland.
This policy explains how accessible the documents Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) publishes on GOV.UK are.
Assesses the different methods available for managing waste gas at onshore oil and gas sites
This section will help you complete your permit application for a landfill for inert waste, or to deposit waste on land as a recovery activity. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
Amended charges for international waste shipments come into force as of 1 April 2024
This plan sets out government policy on shipments of waste for disposal to and from the UK.
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.
This report provided insight into the acceptability and performance of a Urine-diversion dry toilets programme in a humanitarian context in Ethiopia
We commission scientific research and development, worth several million pounds a year, to support waste management.
The NWP Quarterly report provides a wide range of stakeholders with an update on the actions undertaken by the NDA estate on a quarterly basis. This report is for Q3 and Q4 for financial year 2019/2020.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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