The Business Environment Partnership (BEP)
The Business Environment
Partnership provides FREE environmental advice and support to companies in West Lothian.
Link to The Business Environment Partnership (BEP) Website
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Envirowise
The UK wide Envirowise programme assists businesses to realise
cost savings through Waste Minimisation. Free fast track visits are available to small companies. The website has details of events, company case studies, self-help guides and waste minimisation clubs throughout the UK.
Link to Envirowise Website
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Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust provides free, practical advice
to business and public sector organisations to help you reduce energy use. Saving energy saves you money – and helps combat climate change by cutting carbon emissions.
Link to The Carbon Trust Website
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Scottish Energy Efficiency Office
The Scottish Energy Efficiency Office (SEEO) are able to provide advice to businesses
and householders aiming to save money through improved energy efficiency. The SEEO website has information on events, training, local area officers and case studies. Application forms for the Loan Action Scotland interest free loans to help small to medium businesses improve their energy efficiency can be downloaded from the SEEO website.
Link to Scottish Energy Efficiency Office Website
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Scottish Water
Scottish Water is a new organisation replacing East of Scotland Water, North of Scotland
Water and West of Scotland Water and it provides water and waste water services to household and business customers across one third of the land area of Britain. Scottish Water is a public sector model in the UK water industry. It remains answerable to the Scottish Parliament but is structured and managed like a private company.
Link to Scottish Water Website
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Remade Scotland
REMADE Scotland is a major initiative which seeks to stimulate, develop and strengthen recyclate material markets in Scotland. The recycling
programme was launched in August 1999 and has a fundamental part to play in bringing about change, and improving Scotland’s recycling performance by supporting an emerging recycling collection and reprocessing infrastructure in Scotland, encouraging a more sustainable waste management approach. Supported by the public and private sector in a unique partnership, the programme is developing strategies for priority materials including glass, paper, organics and plastics. Remade hold events, training and publish a range of freely available reports.
Link to Remade Scotland Website
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Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP)
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is a UK-wide initiative to promote
sustainable products and markets for recycled materials. The initiative can provide advice, training and information to businesses who intend developing products or processes for using recycled glass, plastics, organics, wood and aggregates. For further information please telephone the free advice line on 0808 100 2040.
Link to Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Website
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Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
SEPA is a powerful body which is responsible for the protection of the environment in Scotland.
SEPA's task is to protect the land, air and water - the core elements that form the fabric of our environment. SEPA is able to provide advice to businesses on all environmental legislation, for example waste management. A range of practical advice sheets are available to download that demonstrate, for example, safe storage of chemicals and oils.
Link to Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Website
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SEPA Waste Minimisation Initiative
This site is designed to advise a wide range of businesses, from small retail outlets to large manufacturing companies,
on how to achieve significant cost savings and environmental benefits by addressing waste minimisation on their own premises. To date, there is now a well established network of sector and geographically focused waste minimisation and business support initiatives across Scotland. These have helped over 400 companies to reduce their waste. This now equates to an across-the-board cost saving amongst Scottish Businesses of at least £6 million.
Link to SEPA Waste Minimisation Initiative Website
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NetRegs
NetRegs is an online service designed to provide a "plain
English" guide to help small and medium businesses through the maze of environmental legislation. The site is managed by the Environment Agency of England and Wales, SEPA and the Northern Ireland Environment & Heritage Service.
Link to NetRegs Website
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BIOWISE
BIO-WISE is a major UK Government Programme funded by the DTI. It aims to: Improve the competitiveness of UK industry
through the use of biotechnology; Support the development of the UK biotechnology supplier industry. Biowise can provide the following services to help businesses: Independent advice through the website; Free publications describing the economic and environmental benefits of using biotechnology; Free events that present biotechnology in action and provide opportunities to network information and advice to biotechnology suppliers.
Link to BIOWISE Website
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Enhanced Capital Allowances
Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs) enable a business to claim 100% first-year capital allowances on their spending on qualifying plant and machinery. There are three schemes for ECAs: Energy-saving plant and machinery; Low carbon dioxide emission cars and natural gas and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure; Water conservation plant and machinery. Businesses can write off the whole of the capital cost of their investment in these technologies against their taxable profits of the period during which they make the investment. This can deliver a helpful cash flow boost and a shortened payback period.
Link to Enhanced Capital Allowances Website
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Lets Recycle
Lets Recycle provide recycling and
waste management news, jobs and prices. Letsrecycle is updated daily and provides a weekly newsletter as well as many useful contacts.
Link to Lets Recycle Website
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Recycling Advisory Group Scotland
RAGS is a national organisation, established in 1993, which co-ordinates the promotion of recycling and associated issues in Scotland. It is
an innovative body committed to the development of a culture of waste management which fully integrates waste reduction, reuse, recycling and education on waste for a sustainable future. Made up of a membership the key organisations involved in recycling in Scotland, including local authorities, community recycling groups, private waste management companies and government agencies, it offers networking and formal discussion as a way of exchanging information and best practice so as to assist in the delivery of more sustainable waste management practices.
Link to Recycling Advisory Group Scotland Website
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