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When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
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.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
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.
Find out which gas appliances must comply with the Gas Appliances (Safety) Regulations 1995, exemption and penalties for non-compliance
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
Find out about the requirements and obligations for warehousekeepers of motor and heating fuels in the UK.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
Guidance for suppliers and dealers.
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