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The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
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).
T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage of cans of waste paint at distribution centres, collected through manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer take-back schemes.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before y…
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
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.
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.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
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