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Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store, treat and use waste water containing concrete at construction sites.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
The T16 exemption allows you to treat waste toner or ink cartridges by sorting, cleaning, dismantling or refilling them.
The T15 exemption allows you to treat aerosol cans by puncturing or crushing them using specialist treatment equipment, so the metal can be recovered.
The U12 exemption allows landscapers, farmers and growers to spread mulch as a protective covering onto land around trees, bushes or plants.
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.
The T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
The U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
This position explains what we mean by “place” under the waste exemption system for farms, the storage of sewage sludge and linear networks.
The D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
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 T2 exemption allows you to clean waste clothes and textiles to recover them for reuse or recycling.
The T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
The U2 exemption allows you to use a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.
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 T14 exemption allows you to recover oil from oil filters before they're crushed so they can be transported for recovery.
Information for farmers about inspections the Environment Agency carries out to prevent and control pollution, and check permits and licence conditions.
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