Waste Minimisation and Environmental Management

The Business Environment Partnership (BEP) in West Lothian can help your company to make cost savings - and even generate revenue - through improved environmental management.

Over the last 7 years since the BEP have operated in West Lothian, more than 170 West Lothian companies have been assisted  to complete around 230 substantial environmental projects.

 

The Business Environment Partnership (BEP) can provide FREE assistance to assess your business, conduct analyses and identify opportunities for environmental improvements. These improvements may be in energy efficiency, waste minimisation, water and effluent management, legal compliance or a range of other environmental topics - all of which will have significant benefits to your business. We can also help you implement the recommendations and may be able to identify sources of financial assistance to pay for the improvements.

Significant cost savings can be achieved from better energy, water and waste management and improved compliance and market advantage can be gained from improving your awareness of environmental issues. Increasing utility costs, resource costs, environmental legislation and public awareness mean that addressing these issues will keep you one step ahead of your competitors.

 
If you would like assistance to improve your environmental management we can visit you to discuss the way ahead. A specialist Environmental Adviser will then focus on conducting a general Environmental Review or can focus on specific issues relevant to your business such as Energy Efficiency, Waste Minimisation, Water and Effluent Management and Policy Development.

 

Contact Details
Telephone - 01506 777 921
Fax - 01506 777909
Email - anna.scott@westlothian.gov.uk
Website - www.thebep.org.uk

Work Placements

The Environmental Placement Programme (EPP) is an effective way of delivering cost benefits to companies whilst at the same time providing university students with valuable in-company experience through 8 week work placements. Run in association with the Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP) and with further private sector sponsorship, almost 50 undergraduate placement projects have identified more than £600,000 worth of cost savings for West Lothian firms since the programme was first run in 1998.
 
Students are put through training workshops and closely supervised to ensure that the business objectives of the project are met and cost savings are implemented.

 

ISO14001

The Business Environment Partnership run a specific ISO4001 programme, in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, that has assisted many small and medium sized businesses to implement Environmental Management Systems.

 

These businesses have seen significant benefits through reduced costs and risk; improved public image and marketing advantages. To date the BEP has helped more than 50 companies to obtain certification to the international standard ISO14001.