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The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
A Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson gave a statement about the 21 July on Qur'an burning in Stockholm.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
When you can burn waste wood, particle board, straw, manure and poultry litter in the open after an animal disease outbreak.
How to get approval to burn poultry manure in a combustion unit on your farm or holding.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
When you can store and dry waste wood before burning as fuel in a standalone Part B co-incinerator without an environmental permit.
Apply for an exemption if you manufacture, import or distribute appliances that burn unauthorised fuels
In smoke control areas you can only use certain types of fuel or exempt appliances - find out if you live in one and what you can burn
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.
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.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
When you can exceed the burning and storage limits in waste exemption D7 to burn trees and plants affected by disease or pests in the open.
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