Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Retail and wholesale guidance
This environmental guidance is for anyone working in the retail and wholesale industry in the UK.
Find out how to minimise the environmental impacts of your retail business and raise your customers’ awareness of recycling and environmental issues.
- 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
- Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
- The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
- Buying environmentally friendly goods and services
- Energy Efficiency
- Providing environmental information for your customers
- Generate renewable energy
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Innovation and product development
- Retail and wholesale: managing your environmental performance
- Savings calculator
- Towards a Circular Economy
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Storage & transport of waste
- Customer waste at retail and wholesale businesses
- Hazardous / special waste
- Waste batteries - disposal from retail and wholesale businesses
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Composting
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- Canteen waste
- Sanitary waste
Whats new on NetRegs
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EU Exit
EU Exit updates: Northern Ireland DAERA Brexit news, Scotland SEPA Supporting Scottish businesses with EU exit
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Waste – Duty of Care Roles and Responsibilities
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency has published a short guide to the duty of care responsibilities including advice and information for waste producers, carriers and those accepting, storing and treating waste.
https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/publications/waste-duty-care-responsibilities
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NetRegs:- FREE, ANONYMOUS, PLAIN ENGLISH GUIDANCE FOR BUSINESSES
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EIA (Agriculture) Regulations for Northern Ireland
Any person intending to alter the use or management of areas of uncultivated or semi-natural land must obtain prior approval from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
Read more on the DAERA website
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Guidance from your environmental regulator
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9 NEW GPPs (Guidance for Pollution Prevention) available now
The NetRegs team at SEPA, in partnership with The Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and a number of industry bodies have produced 9 new GPPs to replace out of date PPGs. More are coming! Check the available topics
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New guidance
New guidance for Start-ups, charities and community projects
http://www.netregs.org.uk/environmental-topics/environmental-management/first-steps-guidance-for-new-starts-projects-and-charities/
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