Office of Environmental Sustainability

The Office of the Environmental Sustainability (OES) has a wide remit that includes the following:

Licensing and authorisation for the following prescribed activities:
- industrial installations,
- intensive agriculture installations,
- wastewater discharges,
- dumping at sea,
- the use and deliberate release of genetically modified organisms and microorganisms,
- closed local authority landfills (known as 'historic landfills').
Delivery of the Circular Economy and the management of projects and programmes to achieve it
End-of-waste and by-product decision making
Reporting on national waste statistics and implementing national waste characterisation programmes
Preparation and coordination of the National Hazardous Waste Management Plan

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