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The U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
By getting an approved framework, you’ll be able to show when a material has reached end of waste status.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
List of exemptions for treating waste, for example sorting or processing it in certain ways. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
The Waste Operations division of Nuclear Waste Services manages the Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria and ensures that lower activity waste is managed effectively across the UK.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
The D1 exemption allows you to deposit dredging spoil on the banks of the water it was dredged from and treat it by screening and removing water.
The T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
List of exemptions for using waste, for example as building material, fuel or fertiliser. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Process efficiency related appropriate measures for biological waste treatment.
Appropriate measures for waste treatment.
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