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D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown, when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
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.
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.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
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.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
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.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Information for farmers about inspections the Environment Agency carries out to prevent and control pollution, and check permits and licence conditions.
T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
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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