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Waste exemptions

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.

  • S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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…