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The 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.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring healthcare waste.
When you can use additional waste codes to store, treat or land spread sewage sludge.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
The additional appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WTEE.
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.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
The appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for the treatment or transfer of WEEE.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
These are appropriate measures for waste storage at a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
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