The Water Industry Act 1991 requires that any liquid produced by your company as part of its business activity on trading premises which is discharged into the public sewage system requires consent from the local sewage waste undertakers (waste water utility company).Where Can...

Deviating samples are samples which may jeopardise the validity of the reported test result for one or more of the following reasons:are not preserved correctlymay have exceeded their maximum holding time prior to analysislack the date and time of samplingare not cooledhave in...

The waste acceptance procedures and criteria are set out in the Council Decision (2003/33/EC). The Landfill Directive (EU Directive 99/31/EC) places controls on waste disposal which include the requirements to follow waste acceptance procedures and criteria agreed by the Counc...

Contaminated Land, Water and Leachates AnalysisThere are unacceptable risks to human health and the environment from historic land contamination which were addressed in the UK through the Environmental Protection Act 1990. br The Environment Agency (EA) and DEFRA provides furt...

The Environmental Laboratory Ltd was established in 2003 and acquired by the Sigma-HSE Ltd in 2013. With over 35 years’ experience in the chemical analysis of contaminated land and water. We have experts on hand to discuss your analysis requirements and provide expert advice o...

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that has been used by the construction industry in building materials in the UK until mid-1980. As a guide, any building constructed before 2000 could contain asbestos and subsequent demolition and of these buildings and burial of buil...