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T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
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.
U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
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.
Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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