Rubber and plastic products

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.

Solvent emissions

Preventing air pollution

Air quality topic

Energy and steam generation

Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

Buying environmentally friendly goods and services

Carbon emissions

Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business

Energy Efficiency

Environmental tax obligations and breaks

Generate renewable energy

Innovation and product development

Savings calculator

Towards a Circular Economy

Environmental damage

Firefighting

Pollution incident response planning

Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and environmental reports

Management toolkit for SMEs - Northern Ireland

Management toolkit for SMEs - Scotland

Manage and improve your environmental performance

Adapt to Climate Change

Contaminated land

Packaging and packaging waste

Fuelling & fuel storage

Oil storage

Chemical storage

Using chemicals in plastics processing

Using chemicals in rubber processing

Noise, odour and other nuisances

Permits and licences - An overview

Does your rubber and plastic business require a PPC permit?

Rubber and plastic trade associations

Car parking

Vehicle emissions

Travel plans and green transport for offices

Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities

Storage & transport of waste

Hazardous / special waste

Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste

WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Balers, compactors, crumbers, granulators and shredders for waste

Energy-from-waste at waste or sewage sites

Trade effluent – Managing liquid wastes

Water use and efficiency

Discharges to water and sewer

Water use and abstraction

Yard runoff from your business

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