Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
Vehicle repair and maintenance guidance
This environmental guidance is for businesses that repair, service and maintain motor vehicles, including cars, light vans, coaches, buses and motorcycles. This includes garages, workshops, service centres and other sites carrying out:
- general servicing and accident repairs
- vehicle body repairs and finishing, including paint spraying
- electrical diagnostics, maintenance and repair
- testing and servicing air-conditioning systems
- tyre fitting
- valeting.
- 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
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- End of life vehicles (ELVs)
- Hazardous / special waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- Used tyres, waste tyres
- Waste oil, oil disposal
- Storage & transport of waste
- Burning waste oil as fuel
- Oil recycling
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