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Waste exemptions

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  • T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.

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

  • 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.

  • T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.

  • T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.

  • 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.

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.

  • 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.

  • U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.

  • U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.

  • The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.

  • T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.

  • T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.