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How the UK supports the use of combined heat and power (CHP) or 'cogeneration', which avoids network losses and reduces emissions.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
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.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
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.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Apply for an exemption if you manufacture, import or distribute appliances that burn unauthorised fuels
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Some 6 defendants who repeatedly ignored Environment Agency advice about waste storage have been sentenced following an Agency investigation.
How to get approval to burn poultry manure in a combustion unit on your farm or holding.
When you can exceed the burning and storage limits in waste exemption D7 to burn trees and plants affected by disease or pests in the open.
When you can burn waste wood, particle board, straw, manure and poultry litter in the open after an animal disease outbreak.
Find out about the legal definitions of biofuel products, excise duty rates and the roles and responsibilities of producers from 1 April 2022.
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
This guidance gives best practice guidance to National Health Service (NHS) organisations in planning, preparing and responding to incidents and emergencies that give rise to burn injuries regardless of cause, source or nature.
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