ANDRA’s agents may be producers of waste in their own right: any site remediation results in the generation of waste. Therefore agents must, before the remediation work, measure and characterize the waste from remediation projects. There again, experience shows that taking these issues into account upstream minimizes delays in administrative treatment and hence the storage time on the polluted site for the waste packages awaiting decision. This delay can be tricky if the owner is a private individual.

Similarly, for certain categories of waste, the agent may need to discuss with those responsible for a disposal site (current or planned), defining upstream the best conditions for characterization, packaging and manage­ment of waste arising from remediation sites. In any case, ANDRA as a waste generator must be exemplary in terms of waste and therefore how to take care of it.