Vehicle repair and maintenance

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.

Solvent emissions

Fluorinated gases (F-gases)

Ozone depleting substances (ODS)

Air quality topic

Buying environmentally friendly goods and services

Energy Efficiency

Environmental tax obligations and breaks

Generate renewable energy

Carbon emissions

Savings calculator

Environmental damage

Firefighting

Pollution incident response planning

Manage flood risk

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

Chemical storage

Oil storage

Fuelling & fuel storage

Packaging and packaging waste

Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)

Batteries regulations

Noise, odour and other nuisances

Permits and licences - An overview

Does your vehicle repair business require a PPC permit?

Vehicle repair and maintenance trade associations

Car parking

Vehicle air-conditioning systems

Vehicle cleaning (including wheel washing)

Vehicle emissions

Vehicle refinishing products

Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities

Storage & transport of waste

End of life vehicles (ELVs)

Hazardous / special waste

WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste

Burning waste oil as fuel

Oil recycling

Used tyres, waste tyres

Waste oil, oil disposal

Trade effluent – Managing liquid wastes

Water use and abstraction

Discharges to water and sewer

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