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D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
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.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
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.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.
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.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
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.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
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