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Waste exemptions

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

  • T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.

  • T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.

  • 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.

  • Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.

  • Register exemptions for waste activity along a stretch of road, railway, river or any other linear network.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.