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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.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
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.
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.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
How the UK supports the use of combined heat and power (CHP) or 'cogeneration', which avoids network losses and reduces emissions.
U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
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