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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 U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
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.
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 exceed the burning and storage limits in waste exemption D7 to burn trees and plants affected by disease or pests in the open.
Adapt your technology operations, finance models and cost optimisation techniques to get the most out of the public cloud.
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.
Find out about the legal definitions of biofuel products, excise duty rates and the roles and responsibilities of producers from 1 April 2022.
A guide to the major publications related to excess deaths in the UK, who produces them and links to the methods and analysis.
How to work out the balancing charge when you dispose or sell plant or machinery after claiming full expensing or 50% first year allowances for them.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Find out about temporary changes to the destruction of spoilt beer, cider, wine or made-wine if you're a brewer, cider producer, wine maker or publican.
Environmental regulations and guidance on offshore oil and gas exploration and production, offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities
Safety leaflet on topical corticosteroids and withdrawal reactions to help patients and their carers to use these medicines safely.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
Find out about the requirements and obligations for warehousekeepers of motor and heating fuels in the UK.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
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