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This guidance document introduces the relevant Waste Management Licensing (WML) regulations for a range of activities involved in transforming waste materials arising from construction and demolition into reusable or recovered materials and products.
The document allows you to access the guidance via two routes:
Anyone using the information contained here should be aware of their obligations as concerns health, safety and the environment and should refer to their organisations Health and Safety file for the project concerned.
This file contains links to external websites which CIRIA and Viridis have no control over. Therefore no responsibility can be taken for the content of such pages.
The attached are draft versions of the document. The ultimate version is being developed by Wrap with Viridis and will eventually replace the following.
Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Adobe PDF format)
Waste Management Licensing Regulations (MS PowerPoint format)
Please note that these interactive documents are a series of linked pages and are not designed to be printed off.
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