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The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
The T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
The T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
The T21 exemption allows you to recover wastes such as sewage grits, screenings and sewage sludge at a waste water treatment works.
The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
The U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
This position explains what we mean by “place” under the waste exemption system for farms, the storage of sewage sludge and linear networks.
The T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
The 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.
Information for farmers about inspections the Environment Agency carries out to prevent and control pollution, and check permits and licence conditions.
This guide is for anyone who dredges inland waterways and wants to deposit the dredged waste on land. It does not apply to hydrodynamic dredging or waste disposal at sea.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
The T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
The U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
The U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
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