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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.
Product Recall for Food Dehydrator SMX-01 presenting a risk of burns.
How councils assess and deal with nuisance odours from industrial, trade and business premises.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
Malcolm Burns joined the Government Chemist programme in October 2000. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the field of molecular biology and is also the Manager for the UK National Reference Laboratory for Genetically Modified Organisms in Food...
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
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
Use this form to apply for approval to burn unprocessed poultry manure in a combustion plant on your farm or holding.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Your council can help you after a fire in your home - Council, emergency housing, Red Cross, fire safety
What enforcement action you can take if domestic solid fuels for sale in England do not meet the legal requirements.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
How to apply for a licence from Defra to burn heather or grass on deep peat within a protected site.
Suppliers display some of Scotland's best-loved food, drink and other iconic exports ahead of Burns Night
When you can burn waste wood, particle board, straw, manure and poultry litter in the open after an animal disease outbreak.
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