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When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
Information on methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) (also known as 2-butanone) for use in responding to chemical incidents.
The agreement for a first-of-a-kind test rig will provide critical data for the design and development of Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP).
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
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.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Safety leaflet on topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions to help patients and their carers to use these medicines safely.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Get help to classify ceramic articles for import and export.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Urgent public health message: UKHSA has been notified about an outbreak of food botulism in France involving a small number of British nationals.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
Information to support your recovery after COVID-19.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
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