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
- Generate renewable energy
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Towards a Circular Economy
- Providing environmental information to your customers, take back schemes and other initiatives
- Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
- Retail and wholesale: managing your environmentl performance
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Chemical storage
- Oil storage
- Selling batteries and using them when manufacturing goods
- Light bulbs and lamps
- Selling electrical and electronic goods
- Selling batteries
- Selling chemicals - REACH
- Fuel and fueling: storing oil, petrol and diesel
- Selling goods containing hazardous substances
- Selling goods containing radioactive isotopes
Environmental News Blog
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EU review of fluorinated greenhouse gas (“F-gas”) policy and legislation, The EU is carrying out a review of its laws on F-gases, which may have an effect on NI stakeholders.
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Guidance on Carrier Bags Charging Legislation in Northern Ireland (from 1 April 2022), DAERA has published guidance on the new Carrier Bags Charging Legislation
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