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Waste exemptions

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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.

  • 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.

  • U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.

  • T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.

  • 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…

  • T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.

  • 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.

  • T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.

  • D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.

  • U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.

  • Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.

  • T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.

  • How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.

  • How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.

  • T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.

  • Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.

  • Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.

  • When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.

  • 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.