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What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
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The controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
Appropriate measures for waste treatment.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
These are waste treatment appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
This exemption allows you to temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
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.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
These are the appropriate measures for waste treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating healthcare waste.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
The T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings before disposing of them to land.
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