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.
- 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
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Generate renewable energy
- Towards a Circular Economy
- Carbon emissions, greenhouse gases
- Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Providing environmental information to your customers, take back schemes and other initiatives
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Hazardous / special waste
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Storage & transport of waste
- Find a reuse and recycling centre, or waste site, near you
- Balers, compactors, crumbers, granulators and shredders for waste
- Plastic Recycling
- Recovering chemical substances from waste
- Waste compactors
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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