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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 D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
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.
Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.
Find out about the requirements and obligations for warehousekeepers of motor and heating fuels in the UK.
A guide to the major publications related to excess deaths in the UK, who produces them and links to the methods and analysis.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
Find out the UK's requirements for the holding and movement of excise goods in duty suspension within the UK and the EU.
When you can burn waste wood, particle board, straw, manure and poultry litter in the open after an animal disease outbreak.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
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