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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.
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.
A guide to the major publications related to excess deaths in the UK, who produces them and links to the methods and analysis.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
Find out about the requirements and obligations for warehousekeepers of motor and heating fuels in the UK.
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