Site Visits and One-to-One Advice
If you don’t know where to start with waste minimisation, why not take advantage of practical help on site that is available free of charge. The following flyer summarises the main advice programmes available to businesses in Scotland. For more details, please log onto the respective websites.
- Flyer currently being updated
Envirowise - FastTrack Visits
Envirowise is a government-funded programme that offers free practical advice on waste minimisation advice and support. The programme offers a free and confidential one-day on-site waste review for small businesses with less than 250 employees. Carefully selected independent consultants work with companies for a day to identify waste minimisation opportunities.
What will you get from a Fast Track Visit:
- Review of all your businesses activities
- Consultation on any specific issues that you have
- Advice on relevant legislation
- A personalised action plan for your waste minimisation
- Agreed target savings identified
- Reference to appropriate guides and other sources of help
- Software to track your progress
Energy and Environment Helpline
Alongside FastTrack visits, the Environment and Energy Helpline Provides front line support from a panel of experts.
Contact Envirowise to arrange a visit on 0800 585 794
http://www.envirowise.gov.uk
Energy Saving Trust Business Advice
The Energy Saving Trust business advisers help small to medium sized businesses in Scotland to make best use of the many energy and resource efficiency schemes provided by the Energy Saving Trust and other government funded organisations.
The advisers can help you access:
- Free and impartial information and advice
- Free on-site energy, waste and water audits
- Practical guides and best practice literature
- Low carbon, clean fuel and renewable technologies
Relevant training and seminars
Contact your local business adviser on 0845 458 5040
http://www.energy-efficiency.org
The Business Environmental Partnership
The Business Environment Partnership (BEP), a division of Midlothian Chamber of Commerce & Enterprise, was established in 1998 to provide free assistance with environmental management to small to medium sized businesses in the East of Scotland. The principle aim of our projects is to make the Scottish economy more competitive by allowing local companies to realise cost savings, risk reduction and an improved competitive advantage by implementing recommendations aimed at improving their environmental performance.
The BEP is unique in that we are a wholly funded partnership of over 40 public and private sector organisations, including the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Enterprise network, European Regional Development Fund, Scottish Executive, local authorities, the water authority, and several private companies. The result is that our team of 8 full-time Business Environment Advisers can provide expert assistance with a particularly strong commercial focus to companies coming to us through the unique referral mechanism that is the BEP.
The BEP run four projects aimed at improving the competitiveness of the Scottish economy through improved environmental management:
- The Waste Minimisation and Environmental Management Initiative
Involves providing assistance to companies wishing to benefit from waste minimisation / energy efficiency / improved water and effluent management / environmental policy etc
- The Environmental Placement Programme
Involves placing undergraduate students from Scottish universities into companies for 8 weeks to provide the resource to implement our recommendations
- ISO14001 Programme
Subsidised assistance for companies to achieve the internationally recognised ISO14001 Environmental Management System standard
- Success & Sustainability
Involves assisting companies to develop and implement sustainability action plans aimed at promoting a more sustainable pattern of development
Contact
Business Environmetnal Partnership
Tel: 0131 654 1234
Web: www.thebep.org.uk
Support is also available within Waste Minimisation Clubs. These enable companies to get together to share experience and advice on waste minimisation. Click here for a list of clubs throughout Scotland.
