Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Life sciences guidance
This environmental guidance is for businesses working in the Life sciences sector.
This includes a number of business activities including biotechnology, biochemistry and a number of healthcare related areas of work.
- 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
- 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 Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Energy Efficiency
- Generate renewable energy
- Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
- Chemical storage
- Oil storage
- Managing Radioactive Substances
- RoHS: Restrictions on hazardous substances
- Pathogens from laboratories and production facilities
- Green Chemistry
- Medicines and medicine disposal
- Selling chemicals - REACH
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Burning waste - What you need to know
- Hazardous / special waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Animal by-products from laboratories
- Clinical waste
- Cytotoxic and cytostatic drugs
- Laboratory waste
- Pharmaceutical waste
- Sanitary waste
- Sharps
- Segregation of healthcare or medical waste
- Storage & transport of waste
- Recycling your healthcare business waste
Environmental News Blog
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SEPA Special Waste Consignment Notes – updated position, The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is now accepting special waste consignment notes (SWCNs) by email only.
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DAERA Waste Policy Tracker, The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has published a Waste policy tracker to stay informed of waste policy developments.
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