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Use this form to register a T11 WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) exemption.
The T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
List of exemptions for using waste, for example as building material, fuel or fertiliser. You must comply with the specific rules of each exemption.
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.
The T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
The D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
The T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
The U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.
The T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
Uses of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) not included in the phase down that do not count towards your quota, and rules on labelling, selling and reporting exempt HFCs.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
Environment Agency state aid exemption from the European Commission, relating to Water Framework Directive objectives for 2017 to March 2021.
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