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The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.
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 U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
The U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
The U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry and/or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
The D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste onto the track.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
The U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
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