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Authorisations, permits, licences and exemptions
- Authorisations - an overview
- Contact your environmental regulator
- Does your business need an authorisation?
- EASR authorisations in Scotland
- EASR industrial activities permits (formerly PPC permits) by sector in Scotland
- EASR waste authorisations in Scotland
- Forestry grants and licences
- Inland fisheries licensing
- Licences and registrations for fish and shellfish farms
- Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) Permits in Northern Ireland
- PPC Permits by sector in Northern Ireland
- Sea fisheries regulators and licencing
- Waste activities by sector in Northern Ireland
- Waste activities by sector in Scotland
- Waste exemptions by sector in Northern Ireland
- Waste management licences in Northern Ireland
- Water authorisations in Northern Ireland and Scotland - Overview
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Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Biofuels for transport
- Buying eco-friendly goods and services
- Cutting your carbon emissions
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business
- The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy labelling and ecodesign of energy-related products
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
- EU and UK Emissions Trading Scheme
- Generate renewable energy
- More about carbon reduction
- Towards a Circular Economy
- Deposit Return Scheme
- Case studies and videos
- Checklists
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Emergency response
- COMAH
- Environmental damage
- Manage flood risk
- Pollution incident response planning
- Firefighting
- Preventing major accidents at Category A facilities
- Retail and wholesale pollution incidents - Spills, leaks and accidents
- Spills on construction sites
- Pollution Incident Response Planning for Golf facilities
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Environmental management
- Adapt to Climate Change
- Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and environmental reports
- First steps - guidance for new starts, projects and charities
- Manage and improve your environmental performance
- Manage the environmental performance of your golf facility
- Management toolkit for SMEs - Northern Ireland
- Management toolkit for SMEs - Scotland
- Smallholder's environmental checklist
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Land
- Contaminated land
- Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed and other invasive weeds
- Land managment topics for forestry
- Land topics - biodiversity, land access, rules for hunting, pest control
- Land topics for agriculture
- Land topics for construction sites
- Land topics for mining and quarrying businesses
- Nature conservation
- Smallholders
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Materials, fuels and equipment
- Batteries regulations
- Chemical storage
- Managing Radioactive Substances
- Materials and equipment for agriculture & animal care
- Materials and equipment used on construction sites
- Materials used by metal fabrication and finishing businesses
- More hazardous materials topics
- More materials and equipment topics
- Oil and Fuel Storage
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Pathogens from laboratories and production facilities
- Pesticides and biocides
- Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
- RoHS: Restrictions on hazardous substances
- Nuisances
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Trade associations & BSOs
- Agriculture trade associations
- Animal boarding and care trade associations
- Chemical industry trade associations
- Construction trade associations
- Education useful links
- Fabricated metal products trade associations
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- Food and drink trade associations
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- Hair and Beauty Trade Associations
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- Landscaping trade associations
- Leather trade associations
- Life sciences useful links
- MEEE trade associations
- Metals production and processing trade associations
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- Mining and quarrying trade associations
- Pest control trade associations
- Printing and publishing trade associations
- Recycling trade associations
- Retail and wholesale trade associations
- Road transport trade associations
- Rubber and plastic trade associations
- Textiles trade associations
- Vehicle repair and maintenance trade associations
- Waste and sewage trade associations
- Wood and wood products trade associations
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Transport
- Car parking
- Carriage of dangerous goods
- Refrigerated transport and equipment
- Travel plans and green transport for offices
- Travel plans for education
- Vehicle air-conditioning systems
- Vehicle cleaning (including wheel washing)
- Vehicle emissions
- Vehicle movements and deliveries at construction sites
- Vehicle refinishing products
- Useful links
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Waste
- Animal by-products and food waste
- Asbestos
- Burning waste - What you need to know
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- End of life vehicles (ELVs)
- Fly-tipping
- Hazardous / special waste
- Import and export of waste
- Managing waste materials
- Operating your landfill site
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- Deposit Return Scheme
- Storage, handling and transport of waste
- Using Consignment Notes for Hazardous/Special Waste
- Transporters of waste (waste carriers), brokers and dealers
- Waste from construction and demolition sites
- Waste site directories
- Waste treatment processes
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
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Business Sectors
- Agriculture
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- Construction
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- Healthcare
- Hospitality, leisure and tourism
- Hunting, shooting and game breeding
- Landscaping
- Leather
- Life sciences
- Machinery, electrical equipment and electronics
- Metal production and processing
- Mineral products
- Mining and quarrying
- Offices
- Pest control
- Printing and publishing
- Pulp, paper and cardboard
- Recorded media
- Recycling and reprocessing
- Retail and wholesale
- Rubber and plastic products
- Sewage
- Surface treatment of metals
- Textiles and clothing
- Transport
- Vehicle repair and maintenance
- Waste businesses
- Wood and wood products
- Legislation
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Households
- Reuse of household goods
- Household materials: If you can’t reuse then recycle
- What do I do if the council doesn’t accept my waste?
- Neighbour problems
- Septic tanks
- Nuisance from local business - odours, noise etc
- Private burials
- Illegal waste dumping/fly tipping
- Getting households energy efficient
- Is it pollution? What you might see at the seashore
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Case Studies
- Combined heat and power
- Construction
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- Fishing and aquaculture
- Food and drink manufacture
- Oil and Gas decommissioning
- Environmental management systems - Ross-Shire Engineering
- Arc Architects
- Clarks Contracts
- FMC Technologies Ltd
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Sureclean
- Vegware Ltd
- Amey
- Brand-Rex Ltd
- City Building (Glasgow) LLP
- FIS Chemicals Ltd
- Glenuig Inn Ltd
- Keenan Recycling Ltd
- Branston Ltd
- Castle Group Scotland Ltd
- Élan Hair Design
- Enviroco Ltd
- Kingdom Housing Association Ltd
- Lothian Buses PLC
- Mainetti UK Ltd
- The Bay Fish and Chips
- Winton House
- Albert Bartlett and Sons Ltd
- Biomatrix Water Solutions Ltd
- Brand-Rex Ltd 2013
- Dryden Aqua Ltd
- Müller Wiseman Dairies
- Vegware Ltd 2013
- BAE Systems Naval Ships
- Celtic Renewables
- Fife Harca
- IRT Surveys Ltd
- Keenan Recycling Ltd 2014
- Peel Tech Ltd
- Soilutions Ltd
- Wind and Cloud Travel Ltd
- Aberdeen Heat and Power
- Clyde Shopping Centre
- Emtelle
- Lobster Pod
- Taylor Wimpey and C & D Associates
- Changeworks
- Edinburgh International Conference Centre
- Edinburgh Leisure
- Farne Salmon and Trout Ltd
- Glenuig Inn
- Lothian Buses
- Marlin Industries Scotland Ltd
- Ross-Shire Engineering Limited
- Veracity UK Ltd
- Webhelp UK
- Changeworks 2017
- Diageo (Leven)
- EC-OG
- Glaze and Save Ltd
- Greenvale AP
- John Lawrie (Aberdeen) Ltd
- Paterson Arran Ltd
- Sibbald Limited
- The Glenmorangie Company Ltd
- The Scottish Cafe and Restaurant
- Aberdeen City Council Countryside Ranger Service
- Aqualution Systems Ltd
- Beyond Green
- Clearwater Controls Ltd
- Scottish Leather Group Limited
- Spruce Carpets Limited
- The James Hutton Institute
- Aberdeen Performing Arts
- ACS
- Aqualution Systems Ltd 2019
- Biomatrix Water Solutions Ltd (1)
- Castle Group Scotland
- Chivas Brothers Ltd
- Diageo – Leven
- Emtelle UK Limited
- Farne Salmon
- FINDRA
- IES
- Intelligent Growth Solutions
- Paterson Arran Ltd 2019
- Renewable Parts Ltd – Refurbishment Centre
- The Bay Fish and Chips 2019
- The Deep Project - The Glenmorangie Company
- Vegware
- Vegware 2019
- Albion Environmental Ltd
- Army Personnel Centre (APC)
- Cascade Water Products
- Diageo - Brand homes and green tourism
- Dundonald Links Golf Club (with Thomas Johnstone Ltd)
- European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd
- Glaze & Save
- Irregular Sleep Pattern
- JaneR Designs
- MacArthur Green
- NHS Highland and Alliance for Water Stewardship
- OnGen
- Scottish Leather Group
- Scottish Sea Farms
- SolarisKit
- Strathaven Airfield
- TCS-Eco
- The Edinburgh Remakery
- Vegware 2020
- ACS Clothing Ltd.
- Adelphi Distillery
- Aqualution
- Beauty Kitchen
- Beyond Green 2021
- Brewster Bros
- Cedeco
- Dear Green Coffee Roasters
- Edinburgh Remakery 2021
- Forest Carbon
- Furniture Project (Stranraer) Limited
- Heron Bros Ltd.
- Hideaway Under the Stars
- InchDairnie Distillery
- Kirkennan Estate Holiday Cottages
- Kirsty Maguire Architect Ltd
- Lothian Buses 2021
- MiAlgae
- Pentland Ferries
- Polycrub
- Rainton Farm - The Ethical Dairy
- Renewable Parts
- Saltire Roofing and Building Ltd
- SAMS Enterprise
- Scottish Leather Group 2021
- Scottish Sea Farms (1)
- Sulmara
- Tennent Caledonian Wellpark Brewery
- Total Homes
- WEEE Scotland Ltd.
- Bruichladdich Distillery Co Ltd
- ThermaFY Eco
- Highlands Rewilding Ltd
- Innovatium Group
- Green Action Trust
- Kenoteq
- Arran Dairies (Taste of Arran)
- Recyke-a-bike
- The Highland Council
- Multiplex Construction Europe
- SRUC Elmwood Golf
- EGG Lighting
- Renfrewshire Council
- Brewster Brothers 2023
- Changeworks 2023
- Dear Green Coffee Roasters 2023
- Ember
- Nairn Dunbar Golf Club
- ReBlade
- RI Cruden Ltd
- RSE (Ross-Shire Engineering)
- Scotmas Group
- Tennent Caledonian Breweries UK Limited
- The Alba Explorers
- The Furniture Project (Stranraer) Ltd 2023
- ACS Clothing Ltd - 2024
- Arbikie Distilling Ltd
- Building Futures Galloway Ltd
- Concentrix
- NetZero Facades
- Edinburgh Remakery 2024
- Fife Golf Trust - Seven Golf Courses for Nature
- Reposit
- Robertson Group
- Sisaltech Ltd
- Suntory Global Spirits
- SWG3
- The Highland Weigh
- We hae meat
- Peel Tech Ltd 2018
- Hickory
- Devro (Scotland) Ltd
- Tinto Toners
- Wind and Cloud Travel
- How to Manage Transport Impacts From Your Business
- IRT Surveys LTD (1)
- How to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Your Business
- BAE Systems Naval Ships (1)
- GRAHAM Construction (1)
- How to Prepare an Emergency Response for your Business
- How to Prevent Diffuse Pollution on a Farm
- How to Manage Oil on a Construction Site
- How to Protect Soil and Water on a Farm
- How to Manage Water on a Construction Site
- How to Reduce Costs on a Farm
- How to Manage Waste on a Construction Site
- How to Store Materials on a Farm
- How to Manage Traffic on a Construction Site
- How to Make Good Use of Nutrients on a Farm
- How to Prevent Diffuse Pollution on a Farm (1)
- Fife Harca Ltd
- Soilutions Ltd (1)
- Keenan Recycling
- Good Environmental Practice in an Office
- Good Environmental Practice on a Construction Site
- Antrim Castle Gardens
- Broughgammon Farm
- City Hotel
- Linden Foods
- Celtic Renewables (1)
- Jessie Macs
- Peel Tech Ltd (1)
- Balruddery Farm - Washing out chemical sprayers
- Balruddery Farm: Field margins
- Pollution prevention on a construction site
- Balruddery Farm: Good practice to reduce the risk of soil erosion
- Initiatives to reduce carbon footprint at an aggregates recycling plant
- Management systems at an aggregates recycling plant
- Reducing nuisances at an aggregates recycling plant
- Waste management at an aggregates recycling plant
- Quality standards for recycled aggregates
- Recovering aggregates for recycling
- Dealing with water at Rainton farm
- Storing silage on a farm
- Anaerobic digestion on a farm
- Improving soil health using digestate on a farm
- Precision slurry application - umbilical spreading
- Fencing off watercourses on a farm
- Dealing with water at Meinside farm
- Maintaining silage pits on a farm
- Benefits of soil testing on a farm
- Slurry separation on a farm
- Slurry storage and application
- Good practice on a farm - Slurry lagoon and separator
- Grassland management techniques promoting biodiversity at golf courses
- Using compost teas as a fertiliser on golf courses
- Golf course management: Changing management style and its benefits
- Monitoring carbon emissions at a golf course
- Benefits of not using pesticides on a golf course
- Golf course management and course sustainability
- Spill awareness - Whisky Sector