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Good practice to avoid causing nuisance
How your business can avoid nuisance disputes and how to successfully deal with complaints about nuisance.
Types of nuisance
Examples of nuisances and when your business may be responsible for the common or statutory nuisances you cause.
Efficient maintenance of existing lighting systems
Simple regular maintenance tasks to improve lighting efficiency, save carbon and reduce energy costs.
Filter strips and filter drains in sustainable drainage systems
How you can use filter strips and filter drains as a drainage system to prevent pollution and flooding in your business.
Green roofs in sustainable drainage systems
How you can use a green roof as a sustainable drainage system to prevent pollution and flooding from your business.
Assessing your motors and drives
The typical motors and drives used by local industry and how cost savings can be made by your business.
Recycling incentives, awards and financial support
Details on national recycling awards, financial incentives available to businesses in Northern Ireland.
Separate and store business waste for recycling
How your business should separate and store your waste before it is sent for recycling, recovery or disposal.
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.
Understand your competitors
How to identify your competitors, find out more about them and then use this information to improve your business.
What you need to know about your competitors
Examine how your competitors do business, what they offer and how they treat their customers.
Learn about customers’ needs from competitors
How learning about a customer's current supplier can help you, if you identify why the customer buys from a rival supplier you can work out how to better them.
Understand your customers' needs
Why understanding your customers' needs is crucial to the success of your business, no matter how good your offering is, customers must want it.
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.
Uses for compressed air in business
Examples of how compressed air is used by industry, where wastage typically occurs, and how it's regulated.
How to cut compressed air costs
Straightforward steps you can take to increase energy efficiency without big changes to your compressed air system.
Dispose of your waste
How to cut the amount of waste your business sends to landfill and how to limit the financial costs of waste disposal.