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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.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
Information for farmers about inspections the Environment Agency carries out to prevent and control pollution, and check permits and licence conditions.
T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can import UK origin naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste without a waste shipment consent.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
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.
T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
Important information on waste codes and descriptions.
T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
T33 exemption allows you to filter central heating oil from disused tanks so that it can be reused.
T31 exemption allows airports to filter and distill waste aircraft antifreeze fluid to recover monopropylene glycol.
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