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 webinar provided Yorkshire & Humber 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:
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Useful Links
Carbon foot printing for water please follow the below link.
http://www.water.org.uk/home/policy/reports/sustainability/sustainability-indicators-2007-08?s1=sustainability&s2=indicators
Carbon Trust financial support
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/solutions
Enhance Capital Allowance (Water Technology List)
http://www.eca.gov.uk/etl
Sustainability Indicators annual report
http://water.org.uk/home/news/press-releases/sustainable-water/sustainability2008.pdf
NetRegs
http://www.netregs.gov.uk/
Interactive Tools
Embedding behaviour change tool
This tool provides businesses with practical advice on how to motivate staff and influence senior management to bring about behaviour change. A change in culture can increase resource efficiency and give the company greater cost savings.
Envirowise Indicator
An interactive web-based tool designed to allow all UK businesses, irrespective of their size or industry sector, to gain a useful indication of their company's environmental impact and the financial savings that can be made by addressing it.
Green Chemistry Toolkit
This Excel spreadsheet tool enables you to measure your business against the 12 principles of green chemistry and target areas for improvement.
Pack-In - A Packaging Indicator for eco-design
Free web-based tool that will give an indication of the environmental impact of packaging designs. It will also compare designs to help decide which one has the least environmental impact and how this could be improved further.
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.
Savings Calculator
Do you work in an office based business? In three simple steps, the Envirowise Savings Calculator tool can identify the potential cost savings you could make around your office each year. In addition to calculating your savings, the tool offers practical guides to help you on your path to reducing costs.
Water Monitoring tool
Helps you to easily record and track where water is being used in your company and analyse your findings.
Water Efficiency Tool
A series of modules providing guidance and call to actions for water efficiency.
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.
Publications
Below are a few water publications. Please note you can search for further publications here.
Quarterly E-newsletter
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Other
How to write an environmental policy
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