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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept waste codes that are not listed in your environmental permit or waste exemption
U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
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Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
How businesses in England can manage septic tank sludges and other wastes from non-mains domestic sewage systems.
Apply to become an approved exporter (AE) and operate legally under the approval.
T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
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.
Information you must provide in your application to deploy mobile plant for landspreading waste. How you must operate under your approved deployment.
SR2015 No 3: metal recycling and WEEE authorised treatment facility excluding ozone depleting substances.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste on to the track.
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.
U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
SR2015 No 16: metal recycling site.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
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.
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