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Environmental awards and recognition for waste reduction
Awards recognise your efforts and can help to promote your business as an environmentally responsible enterprise.
Remanufacture and reuse of office furniture
How remanufactured and recycled office products can deliver cost reductions and environmental benefits.
Manage resources efficiently in your office
How to use a systematic approach to efficiently manage energy, water and waste at your office locations.
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)
How the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations affect producers, distributors and users
Environmental work in your local community
How you can work with your local community on environmental projects and the benefits that your business can gain.
Good practice for storage and sustainable use of pesticides and biocides
Storing your pesticides and biocides to prevent spills, and alternatives to using pesticides and biocides.
Gaining recognition through environmental standards
How to use environmental standards to help gain recognition of the environmental credentials of your business.
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.
Introduction to waste management
Waste management obligations when running a business and where to find support for waste management issues.
Dealing with hazardous waste
How your business can manage any hazardous waste it produces effectively and comply with its legal requirements
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.