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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.
Topical steroid products are safe and highly effective treatments for the management of a wide range of inflammatory skin diseases but have important risks, especially with prolonged use at high potency. In the coming months, as a result of regulatory...
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
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.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
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.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
Check the tariff classification for cenospheres obtained from fly ash.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
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.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
We have more than 10 years’ experience of successfully working with our customers to develop solutions across the radioactive waste lifecycle and provide access to the full range of treatment, logistics, and disposal techniques and technology in the UK, Europe,...
Minister for Europe Nusrat Ghani gave a speech at the Council of Europe foreign ministers’ meeting in Strasbourg on 17 May 2024.
Use this form to apply for approval to burn unprocessed poultry manure in a combustion plant on your farm or holding.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Apply for an exemption if you manufacture, import or distribute appliances that burn unauthorised fuels
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
A Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office spokesperson gave a statement about the 21 July on Qur'an burning in Stockholm.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
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