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Paragraph 41 allows the temporary storage of waste, including WEEE1 , at the place where it is produced, pending its collection. 

Paragraph 42 allows the treatment, keeping or disposal by any person at any premises of scrap metal or waste motor vehicles which are to be dismantled in certain defined situations.

Paragraph 43 allows the treatment, keeping or disposal by any person, at any premises, of waste, by that person, if they were carrying on that activity at those premises before 19 December 2003 and, before that date no disposal licence was required under Part ll of the Polluti

Paragraph 44 allows the heating of iron, steel or any ferrous-alloy1 , non-ferrous metal or non-ferrous metal alloy, in one or more furnaces or other appliances, the primary combustion chambers of which have in aggregate a net rated thermal input of less than 0.2 megawatts, fo

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 46 simple exemption

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 47 simple exemption

Upgrade works on Coleraine to Londonderry railway line

A plan of events for Red Squirrel week in October 2012

Paragraph 2 allows the use, under a permit under The Pollution Prevention and Control (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2003, of waste glass as part of an activity within Part B of section 3.3 (the manufacture of glass and glass fibre) of Part 1, Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulation

Paragraph 4 allows the operation, under a permit under the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 of a scrap metal furnace with a holding capacity of less than 25 tonnes and the loading or unloading of the furnace in connection with its operation.

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 5 simple exemption.

Paragraph 6 allows the cleaning, washing, spraying or coating of waste consisting of packaging or containers, for the purpose of reuse. 

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 7 simple exemption

Paragraph 16 allows the beneficial use of waste if it is put to that use without further treatment and, that use of the waste does not involve its disposal. 

Paragraph 20 allows the laundering or otherwise cleaning of waste textiles with a view to their recovery or reuse.  

Paragraph 21 allows the chipping, shredding, cutting or pulverising of waste plant matter, or the sorting and baling of sawdust or wood shavings. 

Paragraph 22 allows the recovery of silver from wastes produced in connection with printing or photographic processing. 

Paragraph 24 allows the crushing, grinding, or other size reduction of waste bricks, tiles and concrete, under a permit granted under the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003. 

Paragraph 26 allows the recovery, or disposal of waste at the place where it is produced, as an integral part of the process that produces it. It also allows the storage at the place where it is produced, of waste which is intended to be so recovered or disposed of.

Paragraph 27 allows baling, compacting, crushing, shredding or pulverising of waste at the place where it is produced.