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This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
T5 exemption allows you to temporarily treat waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a particular location, such as a construction or demolition site.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
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.
U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
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.
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.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
U11 exemption allows you to spread waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
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 deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
U9 exemption allows you to use waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
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.
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