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This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Working in partnership to shape future plans and benefits
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the use of additional waste codes to store, treat or spread sewage sludge and septic tank sludge to land.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.
The T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
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.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
Use this tool to check the code and control for your waste shipment.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
The 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.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
The U8 exemption allows you to use waste materials (that do not need treating) for a specific purpose to reduce the use of virgin or non-waste materials.
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
SR2010 No 12: treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
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