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315
Event Type:
Workshop
Start Date:
End Date:
Venue:
The Ramada Hotel,
117 Milltown Rd,
Shaw's Bridge,
Nearest Town:
Belfast
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Envirowise delivers a valuable government-funded programme of FREE, confidential advice to UK businesses. This assistance enables companies to increase profitability and reduce environmental impact.
This event provided businesses with practical advice and top tips to enable them to benefit from implementing resource efficiency practices for securing quick wins and long term profitability.
We have compiled a list of relevant services below that could benefit your company:
(Please note, you will need to register/log in to access all of this information)
Presentations:
Envirowise link to PDF presentation
Nuala Devlin, Envirowise
Workshop notes and Presentations
Progressing your EMS Workshop
Sam McClosky, Envirowise
Presentation
Exercise
GG374R Reduce your costs with environmental management accounting publication
Environmental accounting techniques involve identifying, analysing, managing and reducing costs associated with raw materials, utilities, services and waste, with the aim of saving money and reducing the environmental impact. This publication offers practical advice and case studies to help organisations review their decision-making and information flows to enable improved environmental performance to become a key element of their strategy.
http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/uk/Our-Services/Publications/GG374R-Reduce-yours-costs-with-environmental-management-accounting.html
Greening your Supply Chain Workshop
Geraldine Boylan, Envirowise
Presentation
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
IT704 Supply chain partnership toolkit
The toolkit is a set of four main CDs, plus one CD of supporting materials, containing everything you need to create, manage and deliver an effective supply chain partnership project that will successfully reduce waste, unlock hidden profits and improve environmental performance for you and your suppliers.
Relevant tools: Supply Chain Partnership
Save an average of £35,000 with an Envirowise ON-SITE VISIT
Our on-site visits are an excellent opportunity for your business to be evaluated by an Envirowise advisor and receive a report summarising the advisor's findings. This will include an action plan to help you prioritise where to focus your effort, savings targets, and references to other Envirowise publications and software that will help with your implementation plans.
Why an on-site visit?
For eligible* companies, Envirowise on-site visits are:
- Confidential - we will not share our findings or recommendations with anyone else without your agreement. See privacy policy.
- Free to you - no hidden fees or catches.
- Expert and proven - we use qualified and experienced advisors and have delivered over 5,000 visits.
- Company specific - we can tailor visits specifically to your company and address the issues that concern you.
- Government funded - trusted, dependable and long standing.
For more information and to apply for an on-site visit please CLICK HERE
In addition to on-site visits, Envirowise offers a wealth of information and advice to help you become more resource efficient and save money. Visit our website at www.envirowise.gov.uk/ni or call our free confidential Advice Line on 0800 585794 to take the next step in reducing your business costs.
*Eligibility: All Northern Ireland Businesses can use Envirowise for information and advice on how to improve their resource efficiency and make cost effective environmental improvements. We try and match our services to the needs and capabilities of business users and their current status if they have already begun to make improvements. We also have to ensure the most effective use of programme resources.
Managing Change
Resource Efficiency and Corporate Responsibility - Managing Change is a guide on how to effectively introduce new initiatives within your organisation.
Produced by the Government Office for the South West (Sustainability & Environmental Technologies Team) in partnership with Envirowise to help organisations manage change as they seek to become more sustainable through resource efficiency and taking corporate responsibility for the effects of the business on the wider community.
Interactive Tools
Envirowise Indicator
Interactive web-based tool to allow your business to gain a useful indication of your company’s environmental impact and the financial savings that can be made by addressing it.
Words to the Wise
This provides advice on developing a plan of action to help embed sustainability and improve the environmental performance of your company.
Envirowise Publications Wizard
Looking for lots of different information and don't know where to start? Why not try our Envirowise Publications Wizard and select the information you are looking for by sector and topic and get presented with an impressive looking tailor-made PDF. There's even an opportunity to put your name and company on the document.
Publications
Below are a few generic publications. Please note you can search for sector specific publications here.
Quarterly E-newsletter
Register on the website to receive the e-bulletin quarterly newsletter
For e-newsletters specific to your sector please click here
Other
How to write an environmental policy
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