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Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
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 T17 exemption allows you to treat waste fluorescent tubes and capture any mercury emissions before collection for recovery.
The T26 exemption allows small-scale treatment of waste from kitchens using a wormery to produce compost, for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
The U3 exemption allows groups such as schools, colleges and theatres to use waste, such as offcuts of wood, for creative installations.
The U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
The T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings before disposing of them to land.
The T33 exemption allows you to filter central heating oil from disused tanks so that it can be reused.
The U15 exemption allows you to mix ash from burning pig or poultry with slurry and/or manure, and spread it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.
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.
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 T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
The T31 exemption allows airports to filter and distill waste aircraft antifreeze fluid to recover monopropylene glycol.
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.
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.
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