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What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
The MacKay Carbon Calculator provides a model of the UK energy system that allows you to explore pathways to decarbonisation, including net zero by 2050.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
Definition of single-use vapes and reusable vapes, information on regulation and enforcement, and how to recycle vapes.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the agroforestry plan item.
How local authorities must deal with fly-tipping and the penalties they can charge.
How landowners and occupiers can assess the threat of ragwort on their land and control it.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the large wildlife box item.
How to read your gas meter and convert this reading to kilowatt hours.
A list of actions in the Land Use Framework that the government has committed to implementing by 2030.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the woodland management plan item.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Understand which wipes will be banned, when plastic wet wipes can still be sold, and how the ban will be enforced.
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