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A permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste
About the Deposit Return Scheme and how to apply to be a deposit management organisation.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
This guidance is for any business or public body which generates, handles or treats waste.
The T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
The T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
SR2010 No 12: treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
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