matt spooner

Organisation or operator: matt spooner
Register: Waste Exemptions
Registration reference: WEX456358
Site grid reference: SJ 56418 77765
Environment Agency Operational Area: Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire
Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

Exemptions

S1 — Storing waste in secure containers

Storing specific waste in secure containers at a different place to where the waste was produced, before it's transported to another site to be recovered.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

S2 — Storing waste in a secure place

Storing specific waste a secure place that's different to where it was produced, before the waste is transported to another site to be recovered.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

T1 — Cleaning, washing, spraying or coating relevant waste

Treating waste packaging so that it can be reused in its original form. Also cleaning suitable waste to allow it to be recycled.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

T10 — Sorting mixed waste

Small organisations, such as charities, separating recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

T2 — Recovering textiles

Cleaning waste clothes and textiles to recover them so they can be reused or recycled.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

T28 — Sort and denature controlled drugs for disposal

Pharmacies and other similar places complying with the requirements of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 by denaturing controlled drugs (making them unsuitable for consumption).

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

T4 — Preparatory treatments (baling, sorting, shredding etc)

Treating waste to reduce its volume to help transport it to another site for reuse or recycling or make handling easier.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

T5 — Screening and blending waste

Temporarily treating waste on a small scale to produce aggregate or soil at a place such as a construction or demolition site.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

T9 — Recovering scrap metal

Treating scrap metal by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting it with hand-held equipment to make it easier to handle and to help recover it.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U1 — Use of waste in construction

Use of waste in construction using suitable waste rather than virgin raw material or material which has ceased to be waste - for example by complying with a Quality Protocol.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U10 — Spreading waste to benefit agricultural land

Spreading specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials such as agricultural lime used to improve or maintain soil.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U11 — Spreading waste to benefit non-agricultural land

Spreading different waste on non-agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials such as agricultural lime used to improve or maintain soil.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U12 — Using mulch

Landscapers, farmers or growers spreading mulch as a protective covering onto land around trees, bushes or plants.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U13 — Spreading plant matter to provide benefits

Spreading cut plants at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U14 — Incorporating ash into soil

Mixing ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from burnt crops and vegetation.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U15 — Spreading of pig and poultry ash

Mixing ash from burning pig or poultry carcasses with slurry and/or manure and spreading it on farmland to provide the soil with nutrients.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U2 — Use of baled end-of-life tyres in construction

Using a small number of end-of-life tyre bales in construction.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U3 — Construction of entertainment or educational installations

Groups such as schools, colleges and theatres using waste such as off-cuts of wood creatively.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U4 — Burning of waste as a fuel in a small appliance

Using waste as fuel to produce heat or power.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U5 — Using biodiesel produced from waste as fuel

Storing and using biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U6 — Using sludge to re-seed a waste water treatment plant

Importing sludge from another waste water treatment plant to re-seed the biological process at a waste water treatment plant.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U7 — Using effluent to clean a highway gravel bed

Using effluent from water and waste treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds. This reduces the amount of tap water used where high quality water is not needed.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U8 — Using waste for a specified purpose

Using waste that does not need treating, to reduce the use of virgin or non waste materials.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

U9 — Using waste to manufacture finished goods

Using waste in place of raw materials to manufacture a finished product.

Registration date: 2025-06-10
Expiry date: 2028-06-09

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Environment Agency Conditional Licence