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When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Guidance on the best available techniques in pulverised wood combustion infrastructure and operation for preventing fire related incidents.
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.
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.
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.
Find out how you can use manure, guano and digestive tract content, including how to store and move them.
Sellafield Ltd is committed to keeping the public informed about operations on the Sellafield site.
Information on OPSS product safety alerts, reports and recalls for unsafe products and resources for consumers, businesses and regulators.
What you need to do to supply, distribute and sell wood for use in domestic heating appliances in England.
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