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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).
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the storage and treatment of waste oyster shells for use in new products.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on discharging waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into a wastewater treatment works where your permit contains a POPs exclusion.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
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