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What are my waste recycling options?
Recycling options available to your business involving plastics, tyres, wood, paper, textiles and metals.
Recycling waste in the hospitality industry
How to implement a recycling scheme to save your business money and reduce the amount of waste you send to landfill.
Recycling best practice and obligations
Recycling is an important waste management option for your business, and is even a requirement for some types of waste.
Allowing time off work
When staff have a statutory right to time off, when it must be paid, and how to deal with discretionary requests.
Time off work for training and certain job-related duties and activities
Time off for training for those to be made redundant, union and safety representatives, and pension scheme trustees.
Who has the right to time off work and when is it paid?
Time off for trade union work, TUPE consultation, pension scheme, and public duties is a paid, statutory requirement.
Time off work for information and consultation purposes
Time off to be a representative in redundancy and transfer situations, and to attend information and consultation meetings.
Time off work for personal commitments and emergencies
An employee's right to unpaid time off to look after dependants in an emergency, discretionary and extended leave.
Time off for public and judicial service and duties
Time off rights for employees taking part in activities relating to public bodies and the legal system.
Statutory time off work for parental reasons
Time off for maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave or parental leave, and time off for pregnant employees.
Chemical manufacturing water efficiency
How chemical industry businesses can use simple, cheap operating practices to reduce water use and save money.
Client's guide to cutting waste from construction projects
How clients such as developers and landlords can save money by reducing waste from their construction projects.
Energy efficiency in paper and cardboard production
How paper and cardboard producers can cut their energy costs and meet Energy Performance Certificate requirements.
Paper manufacturing and renewable energy generation
Renewable energy sources for paper and cardboard producers, such as solar, wind and water power, and biomass.
Save costs from your construction projects
Some initial cost-saving steps that clients can take to reduce the waste in any construction project.
Business leadership to cut construction waste
How clients can place waste management and waste reduction at the centre of their construction projects.
Compressed air energy efficiency
How to reduce energy consumption and save money when you use compressed air in your business activities.
How to improve the performance of your compressed air system
Suggestions for changes you can make to your compressed air system to improve overall energy efficiency.
Chemical manufacturing site pollution incident prevention
How you can prepare and deal with pollution incidents to minimise the risk of fines and clean-up costs.
Uses for compressed air in business
Examples of how compressed air is used by industry, where wastage typically occurs, and how it's regulated.