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Treating and composting biodegradable waste
Permits and quality standards for treating biodegradable waste, including composting and anaerobic digestion.
Reduce your use of raw materials
Cutting down on materials use through correct specification, handling and storage and better product design.
Reduce waste in production
How to analyse business processes to cut waste without affecting your overall efficiency and profitability.
Reducing business waste: six top tips
Tips and guidance on how to reduce business waste and ways to make your business more resource efficient.
Purchasing carbon offsets
Offsetting the carbon emissions that you can't help producing and checking the quality of carbon offset products.
Approval and labelling when supplying pesticides and biocides
How to apply for approval to sell pesticides and biocides, and information you must provide to customers.
Approved pesticide and biocide products and qualifications
Check if your pesticide or biocide is an approved product, qualifications for fumigation and POPs phase out.
Care when using pesticides and biocides
Using pesticides and biocides - aerial application, using pesticides and biocides near water, dealing with spills.
Identifying asbestos
Your responsibilities for identifying asbestos and maintaining an asbestos register for your buildings.
Working with asbestos
The legal responsibilities that apply if you work with asbestos and the practical steps to take when you find asbestos.
How to monitor water use in your business
Using a water balance to monitor your water use and comparing your water use with similar businesses.
Initial analysis of your water use and disposal
Analysing current business water use and disposal to give a baseline from which your water balance can be created.
Make a diagram of your business' water use
Making a block diagram of your water use to provide a visual aid to understanding potential savings.
How to keep your environmental policy up to date
How to ensure continual improvement in environmental performance by keeping your environmental policy up to date.
Checklist for writing an environmental policy
A simple checklist for how to draft an environmental policy which is appropriate to your type of business.
How to format your environmental policy
How to plan and develop an environmental policy according to the needs and culture of your business.
How to integrate an environmental policy into your business
Improve supplier relationships, consider environment-related investment, and set objectives for an efficient policy.
Extending the scope of your environmental policy
How to extend your environmental policy to take into account corporate social responsibility and greater sustainability.
Use your water monitoring information to save money
Using the information provided by the water balance and benchmarking to identify and implement cost savings.
Finalise the detail of your water balance
How to ensure you build the most comprehensive water balance by identifying less obvious water usage in your business.