Advice for businesses
Making small changes to the way that your business disposes of its waste can help you to save money.
- For information, tips and advice on increasing your profits by reducing waste visit Oxfordshire County Council's commercial waste pages.
- Retrader is a new materials exchange website set up by Oxfordshire Waste Partnership (OWP) that enables businesses to pass on materials they no longer need and get pre-used materials from other businesses.
- The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) provides assistance to Small and Medium Sized enterprises in setting up recycling schemes in the workplace. This includes one to one support from a WRAP 'Recycle at Work' advisor.
- For advice on what your business needs to do to help protect the environment and comply with environmental legislation visit the NetRegs website.
Carbon Accounting
As part of its commitment to help businesses reduce their carbon emissions, Oxfordshire County Council has developed an online carbon foot printing tool called Carbon Accounting. This free tool can help businesses measure their carbon: the first step on the path to reduction.
The Environmental Information Exchange (EiE) at Oxford Brookes University offers further environmental support. Users of the tool are eligible for a low cost energy and waste consultancy that identifies realistic savings through resource efficiency. This costs £440 +VAT, but the money will be refunded if the report can't show you how to save more money within a year than the consultancy costs.
EiE is a non-profit group that has carried out energy and waste consultancy for over 1000 Oxfordshire and area businesses. For more details contact:
- eie@brookes.ac.uk
- 01865 483 299
For more information on carbon please visit Carbon Accounting.
