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Dealing with hazardous waste
How your business can manage any hazardous waste it produces effectively and comply with its legal requirements
Ongoing environmental improvement
Plan and collect feedback, set targets, monitor success, change, adapt and re-evaluate to keep on track.
Identifying invasive plants
How to identify the most common invasive plants around your premises or land in order to find the right solution.
How to source and design low-carbon products
How to design or find suppliers of low-carbon goods and materials to benefit the environment and attract new customers.
How invasive plants spread
Guidance to understand specific ways in which different invasive plants can spread and multiply, and how to stop them.
Use paper efficiently in your office
How to use paper efficiently in your office in order to reduce costs and the environmental impacts of your business.
Making environmental claims
Good practice when you make green claims about your products and services and information on what you can't claim.
Using environmental labelling
Green labelling schemes that you may be able to apply to the products and services that your business sells.
How to avoid unauthorised effluent discharges
How your business can avoid discharging effluent without permission and potentially incurring costly fines.
What is trade effluent?
Examples of what is and isn't trade effluent to help you understand your responsibilities when discharging waste water.
Office energy efficiency top tips
How using less energy in your office locations can reduce your costs and your greenhouse gas emissions.
Digging up invasive plants
How to effectively and legally remove different types of invasive plants by digging them up and good practice tips.
Cutting and burning invasive plants
How to safely and legally cut down and burn invasive plants to control and remove them in your business.
Reducing and treating your trade effluent
How your business can save money on waste water bills by managing, reducing or treating its trade effluent.
Cut water use in your office
How to reduce water use in your office by using water efficiently in washrooms and kitchen facilities.
Dealing with effluent that can't go to foul sewers
How to deal with effluent that you can't discharge to public foul sewer by changing processes or pre-treating waste.
How to reduce waste from your office
Key areas and issues to focus on when you are cutting the amount of waste that your office produces.
Handling and working with invasive plants
How to safely handle and work with invasive plants in your business, and measures to protect other people.
Disposing of invasive plants and contaminated soil off site
How your business can legally and safely dispose of invasive plants and contaminated soil at a waste site.
Spraying invasive plants with herbicide
How to use herbicide safely, effectively and legally to treat invasive plants on your land or around business premises.