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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.
Guidance on the best available techniques in pulverised wood combustion infrastructure and operation for preventing fire related incidents.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
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.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
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 burn waste wood, particle board, straw, manure and poultry litter in the open after an animal disease outbreak.
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
Sellafield Ltd is committed to keeping the public informed about operations on the Sellafield site.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Find out how you can use manure, guano and digestive tract content, including how to store and move them.
Location: 2.5nm South of Shoreham, East Sussex, England
Some 6 defendants who repeatedly ignored Environment Agency advice about waste storage have been sentenced following an Agency investigation.
Special feature article from the September 2015 edition of Energy trends statistical publication.
A man who was jailed for illegally importing and burning waste in Essex has been ordered to pay costs of £85,000.
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