A simple exemption is a waste handling activity that is exempt from requiring an Environmental Permit and which is relatively low risk.
Each exemption listed below has a paragraph number and a one line description of the activity that it covers. See each link for:
- a full description of that exemption
- guidance about what it means.
You are provided with instructions on how to register this exemption if you intend to undertake the activity. There is no charge for the registration of these waste activities.
You must be the occupier of the land where the activity is carried out or have the consent of the occupier before you give us notice of any of these exempt activities.
Notification form
If you are already familiar with the exemptions and want to go straight to the notification form, please download the following document:
List of simple exemptions
Recovery or reuse
- Paragraph 4 - Cleaning, washing, spraying or coating of waste packaging and containers
- Paragraph 5 - Burning waste as a fuel in an exempt appliance
- Paragraph 8 - Secure storage of sludge
- Paragraph 11 - Treatment of waste for the purpose of recovery
- Paragraph 13 - Manufacture and treatment of construction materials and timber products
- Paragraph 14 - The manufacture of finished goods from waste
- Paragraph 15 - Beneficial use of waste
- Paragraph 17 - Storage of waste in a secure place
- Paragraph 18 - Storage of waste in a secure container
- Paragraph 20 - Laundering or cleaning waste textiles
- Paragraph 21 - Chipping, shredding, cutting or pulverising of waste plant matter
- Paragraph 22 - Recovery of silver from waste printing and photographic wastes
Operations leading to recovery, reuse or disposal
- Paragraph 25 - Deposit of dredgings from inland waterways
- Paragraph 26 - Recovery of waste as an integral part of a process
- Paragraph 27 - Treatment of waste at place of production
Disposal of own waste at place of production
- Paragraph 29 - Burning of waste in exempt incinerator at place of production
- Paragraph 30 - Burning of waste on open land at place of production
- Paragraph 31 - Discharge of sanitary waste from passenger train
- Paragraph 32 - Burial of sanitary waste from removable receptacle
- Paragraph 33 - Keeping or deposit of peat excavation waste
- Paragraph 34 - Keeping or deposit of spent railway ballast
- Paragraph 35 - Deposit of mineral exploration waste
Other deposits of waste
- Paragraph 38 - Deposit or storage of waste samples
- Paragraph 39 - Secure storage of waste medicines, medical, nursing and veterinary wastes
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
Others
- Paragraph 44 - Heating metals and metal alloys for the purpose of removing grease, oil or any other non-metallic contaminant
- Paragraph 48 - Pet burial
