Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Rubber and plastic products sector guidance
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.
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- 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
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Generate renewable energy
- Towards a Circular Economy
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