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Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
1. Overview A waste exemption is a waste management activity that is…
1. Overview Most waste exemptions must be registered with the Environment…
1. Overview Most businesses have to pay to register their waste…
How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
Types of waste and the maximum amounts you can use in building projects, landscaping or drainage works under a U1 exemption.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.
Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
What counts as a statutory nuisance and how councils can deal with complaints by issuing an abatement notice.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
You can temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected. You do not need to register this exemption.
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