Rubber and plastic products
This guidance is for businesses that manufacture rubber and plastic products, for example for use in the construction and automotive industries, electrical and electronics manufacturing or packaging production.
You will find this guidance useful if your business:
- manufactures finished articles from polymers and elastomers
- processes monomers and pre-polymers, including polymerisation and compounding where these are part of the manufacturing process.
- 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 eco-friendly goods and services
- 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)
- Generate renewable energy
- Towards a Circular Economy
- Carbon emissions, greenhouse gases
- Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
- Providing environmental information to your customers, take back schemes and other initiatives
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Hazardous / special waste
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Balers, compactors, crumbers, granulators and shredders for waste
- Plastic Recycling
- Recovering chemical substances from waste
- Waste compactors
- Find a reuse and recycling centre, or waste site, near you
- Storage & transport of waste
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