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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.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
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.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store waste shells for nature restoration
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
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