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Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
Form to apply for approval to incinerate animal by-products (ABPs) at your processing facility or incineration site.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Decommissioning programmes, including dates, locations, installations decommissioned, method of decommissioning and close-out reports where available.
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