Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Education sector guidance
This guidance on environmental regulations is for anyone who works in in schools, further education colleges, community colleges, universities or adult education centres, such as:
- janitors
- HS&E
- head teachers
- facilities managers
- grounds managers
- staff responsible for laboratories and workshops used for practical courses.
- Air pollution
- Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Emergency response
- Environmental management
- Land
- Materials and equipment
- Nuisances
- Permits and licences
- Trade associations and BSOs
- Transport
- Waste
- Water
- Biofuels for transport
- Buying environmentally 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
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
- EU Emissions Trading Scheme
- Generate renewable energy
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
- Sustainable procurement practices for education
- Eco-schools
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Hazardous / special waste
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Accommodation waste
- Canteen waste
- Fly-tipped rubbish
- Food waste and catering waste
- Sanitary waste
- Storage & transport of waste
- Find a reuse and recycling centre, or waste site, near you
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Composting catering waste
- Composting green waste
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