Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Surface treatment of metals
Surface treatment of metals sector guidance
This guidance is for businesses involved in the surface treatment of metals.
- 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
- Innovation and product development - sustainable ways of working
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
- Chemical storage
- Oil storage
- Materials used by metal fabrication and finishing businesses
- Green Chemistry
- Metal powders
- Classifying and labelling chemicals
- Fuel and fueling: storing oil, petrol and diesel
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
- Degreasing solvents for metal finishing
- Degreasing solvents for surface treatment of metals
- Enamel application equipment
- Enamel slip materials
- Zinc coating using galvanising baths
- Jigging equipment for metal plating
- Mechanical finishing equipment
- Cutting and shaping metal products
- Applying metalic coating to products
- Nickel coatings
- Non-metallic coating to prevent rust
- 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
- Scrap metal
- Balers, compactors, crumbers, granulators and shredders for waste
- Recycle & reprocessing scrap metals
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