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Reuse and recycle business waste
Guides on how best to recycle or reuse your business waste to benefit the environment and your bottom line
Environmental obligations and support
Guides detailing the legal responsibilities which your business has to reduce its impact on the environment
Preventing pollution
Guides summarising your legal responsibilities for preventing pollution and best practice methods to achieve compliance
Hazardous substances and waste
Guides which detail your legal responsibilities for hazardous substances and hazardous waste in your business
Waste and recycling industry
Guides on legal frameworks for waste businesses and the ways to reduce the overall impact of waste on the environment
Metal production and processing
Guides which help you to understand your environmental responsibilities when manufacturing metal
Paper and cardboard manufacturing
Guides on how paper and cardboard manufacturing businesses can improve their environmental performance and compliance
Manage business finances
Guides on why managing finance is an important part of starting and running your business
Family business
Understand the benefits and issues that affect family-run businesses, employing family members or financing from friends and family
Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Hire professional services
Guides on how and why to hire professional service providers to help your business in the startup phase
Business planning
Guides on how to create a business plan for your startup and how business plans can be useful at different stages of your business
Starting a business - find a case study
A range of case studies from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses
Business premises and rates - find a case study
Insight into how real businesses deal with premises and property issues on a practical level
Starting my business from home - Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs (video)
Debbie Todd, owner of Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs, discusses how she started her business from home
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Stock control methods
How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems
Advantages of water efficiency in business
Some of the financial and non-financial benefits of taking a sustainable approach to water use in your business
How to analyse water use in your business
How you can assess the cost of your business water use by analysing how much water you use across all operations