We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Help improve GOV.UK Sign up to take part in user research (opens in a new tab)
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
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.
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).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
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.
Information for farmers about inspections the Environment Agency carries out to prevent and control pollution, and check permits and licence conditions.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
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.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
Do not include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).