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The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
For a Part A installation with a biological treatment capacity exceeding 100 tonnes each day, accepting no more than 500,000 tonnes a year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
This page contains Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) Waste Package Specifications and Guidance for waste packages destined for geological disposal.
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Guidance on the application of the regulations and the administrative procedures that will be used by government in reaching justification decisions.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Guidance on how land and groundwater should be protected at permitted facilities.
Standard rules to operate a WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of no more than 75 tonnes a day that accept no more than 35,000 tonnes a year.
How the Environment Agency will respond to planning consultations that include activities we permit under the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010 (EPR).
Standard rules to operate an inert and excavation waste transfer station with treatment (existing permits only).
The T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
Standard rules SR2015 No 18: metal recycling, vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling facility.
This document contains the performance standards and test procedures for flowmeters used for the monitoring of raw water abstraction, treated wastewater discharges from industrial processes, ultraviolet disinfection processe…
All guidance documents for the packaging of Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land spreading and deployment form.
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