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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.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
The U4 exemption allows you to use waste plant material or untreated wood as fuel in a small appliance to produce heat or power.
Find out about the long-term effects some people can have after having COVID-19.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
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.
The D6 exemption allows you to dispose of small amounts of specific waste that have been produced on site in an incinerator.
If you have long COVID there is a range of support available.
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.
Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.
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.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Topical steroid products are safe and highly effective treatments for the management of a wide range of inflammatory skin diseases but have important risks, especially with prolonged use at high potency. In the coming months, as a result of regulatory...
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
The rules about having garden bonfires, burning domestic waste, complaining about a neighbour's bonfire, fines
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
How to get relief from excise duty on oil used in certain ways using the Industrial Relief Scheme, also known as the Tied Oils Scheme.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
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