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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.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Find out what animal by-products you can use to make biodiesel, whether you need approval, how to process them and how to use the products.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export fats to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
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 T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
PC Ady Bebb successfully broke the Guinness World Record for ‘Fastest Marathon dressed as a Road Vehicle’ during the London Marathon recently.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
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 businesses can get a rebate of duty on light oil used as a furnace fuel.
Use these road fuel charges from 1 May 2017 on your VAT return, to account for private consumption of fuel on a business vehicle.
Outlines the provisions of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, and provides assistance in understanding and applying them.
The T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
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
Information to support your recovery after COVID-19.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
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