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Waste exemptions

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  • U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.

  • How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.

  • T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.

  • D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.

  • Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.

  • T12 exemption allows you to sort, repair, refurbish or dismantle waste for reuse or recovery.

  • T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.

  • How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.

  • T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.

  • 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.

  • Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.

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

  • U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.

  • D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.

  • U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.

  • 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…

  • 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.

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

  • U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.

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