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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.
Provides further information in support of the implementation of waste planning policy.
The T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
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 T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
19 waste codes are from waste management facilities, off-site waste water treatment plants and the preparation of water intended for human consumption and water for industrial use. Your permit lists the 19 waste codes you can use. You must follow...
We are seeking views on the changes we have made to our guidance on waste assessment and classification.
Sets out changes in terminology in definitions relating to waste reporting obligations.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
The U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
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.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
Classifying and coding extractive waste for onshore oil and gas activities and best available techniques (BAT) for managing extractive waste.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
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