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The 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 store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can import UK origin naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste without a waste shipment consent.
The 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.
The T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
The 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.
The D2 exemption allows older rolling stock not fitted with appropriate collection facilities to deposit sanitary waste onto the track.
The D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
The T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
The T33 exemption allows you to filter central heating oil from disused tanks so that it can be reused.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
The 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.
Important information on waste codes and descriptions.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
The T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
The T27 exemption allows organophosphate sheep dip to be treated with an approved organophosphate-degrading enzyme. T27 is currently unavailable for use.
The T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings by carbon filtration before disposing of them to land.
The T31 exemption allows airports to filter and distill waste aircraft antifreeze fluid to recover monopropylene glycol.
The U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
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