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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.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn or incinerate waste following an animal disease outbreak or infection identified by the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Feasibility of waste burning reactors in the UK, using technologies designed to reduce the amount of long-lived radioactive waste in spent nuclear fuel.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of trees or plants affected by disease or pests by burning: RPS 71.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on peat deeper than 30cm within a less favoured area.
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