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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 temporary changes to the destruction of spoilt beer, cider, wine or made-wine if you're a brewer, cider producer, wine maker or publican.
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 controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
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.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to get relief from excise duty on oil used in certain ways using the Industrial Relief Scheme, also known as the Tied Oils Scheme.
Insights from new evidence on the relationship between excess weight and coronavirus (COVID-19).
Find out about the legal definitions of biofuel products, excise duty rates and the roles and responsibilities of producers from 1 April 2022.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
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