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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.