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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.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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…
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
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.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
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