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Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
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
How councils deal with complaints about smoke from premises that's a statutory nuisance, smoke that's exempt and how smoke can be assessed.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
What you need to do to get your fuel authorised for use in domestic heating appliances in smoke control areas.
Apply for an exemption if you manufacture, import or distribute appliances that burn unauthorised fuels.
The law on smoking in the workplace and what businesses must do to prevent smoking at work
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.
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