Planning and Preparation
Our goal is to ensure that waste is managed in a way that is sustainable and protects people and the environment, now and in the future.
National Waste Inventory
More than 4 million cubic metres of waste is still to be recovered and treated to complete the UK’s decommissioning programme, and all of it requires careful management. But first, we need to understand or ‘characterise’ what we are dealing with.
Integrated Waste Management Programme (IWMP)
The nation needs a more joined-up approach to waste management. So we’re thinking differently about waste, creating and developing new approaches. This will be crucial for delivering more efficiency, greater speed and lower costs.
We have led the way in developing and offering services to the industry to take advantage of alternative waste management routes, applying the waste hierarchy – helping to ensure the right waste form is in the right package and is disposed of at the right facility.
Sustainable waste management
95%
in 2009, 95% of waste went straight to disposal at the Low Level Repository site.
2%
In 2021, just 2% of waste arising went to disposal.
98%
The rest has been successfully diverted (for example, re-used or recycled).
