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Only “fit and proper” persons may run waste sites and responsibility for a closed landfill site will continue until all risks of pollution or harm to human health and safety are past. The licensing regime enables waste regulation authorities (WRAs) to refuse to accept the surrender of a license. Prior to enablement of the 1990 Act in May ...
The following is a list of incinerators in the UK that treat municipal waste: Operating. Leeds RERF. NESS Energy Project, Aberdeen;
Pitsea waste management site is a large landfill site on the north side of the Thames estuary 0.7 miles (1.1 km) from Pitsea in Basildon, Essex. [1] It is the second largest landfill site in the UK [2] operated by Veolia Ltd. [1] receiving 800,000 tonnes of solid waste per year, mostly from the London conurbation.
Out of all of the waste that was from household, commercial and industrial waste, approximately 57% [4] of the waste was distributed to waste management sites. In addition some waste from sewage sludge, mining waste, and quarrying waste are moved to landfill sites. Landfill has been the most efficient way of disposal in the UK, as of in 1994 ...
Mucking Marshes landfill was a major landfill site servicing London, close to the hamlet of Mucking, in Thurrock, Essex. Covering hundreds of acres of former gravel quarry , it was one of the largest landfills in Western Europe and had been filled for decades with municipal and commercial waste floated thirty miles down the River Thames in ...
Allerton waste recovery park is a waste recovery and incineration site located on a former quarry at Allerton Mauleverer, near Knaresborough, England. It is operated by AmeyCespa on behalf of North Yorkshire County Council and City of York Council , the site is capable of handling 320,000 tonnes (350,000 tons) of household waste per year.
SUEZ Communities Trust was created in 1997 to support community and environmental projects using funds from SUEZ recycling and recovery UK's landfill tax.The trust provides funding for a wide range of schemes and was the first environmental body accredited by ENTRUST, the Government regulator for organisations distributing grants from the Landfill Communities fund.
Beaufort's Dyke, showing the position of the munitions dump, from an Admiralty chart published in 1947. Depth in fathoms. Because of its depth and its proximity to the Cairnryan military port, Beaufort's Dyke became the United Kingdom's largest offshore dump site for surplus conventional and chemical munitions after the Second World War: it had been used for the purpose since the early 20th ...