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Waste exemptions

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

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.

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

  • T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.

  • 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).

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

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

  • U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.

  • 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.

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

  • When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.

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

  • U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.

  • U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.

  • 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.

  • T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.