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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.
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 T24 exemption allows farmers to anaerobically digest manure, slurry and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate for use as fertiliser or soil conditioner.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
How to comply with regulations for energy recovery and advanced conversion technologies.
The T25 exemption allows you to treat food and other biodegradable waste by anaerobic digestion to produce digestate for use as fertiliser, and burn the resulting biogas.
This article presents findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
Use this form to apply for approval to burn unprocessed poultry manure in a combustion plant on your farm or holding.
How the UK supports the use of combined heat and power (CHP) or 'cogeneration', which avoids network losses and reduces emissions.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Find out about the requirements and obligations for warehousekeepers of motor and heating fuels in the UK.
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition recommendations on carbohydrates, including sugars and fibre
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