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Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
What you need to do to supply, distribute and sell wood for use in domestic heating appliances in England.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
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.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
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 S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
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