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Resource efficiency
Good for business.
Good for the Environment.
UK businesses could save £23 billion* per year and help create and protect jobs by improving the way they use resources.
Resource efficiency is not just an environmental initiative, it is simply a question of good commercial sense. Waste costs money and by finding ways to reduce waste, your business could become more profitable.
Resource Efficiency Tool
An ideal starting point for assessing how your business is managing its resources. This confidential interactive tool identifies what you can improve on and allows you to set a benchmark.
Waste Hierarchy Tool
If you create or manage waste, are a local authority or business/contractor, the Waste Hierarchy guide is an interactive tool that allows you to get general information about the type of waste your business generates and how you can take action to deal with the waste more sustainably in accordance with the waste hierarchy.
You will be able to gain information on individual materials and products such as paper and board, food, wood, glass, metals, plastics, and WEEE.
By clicking on a series of simple tick boxes the information generated in a PDF format can be tailored to your individual business waste. If selected, additional case study material can be added if required.
Resource efficiency can secure your supply of resources
National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP)
Other useful resources
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Providing access to:
WRAP funds and delivers part of what's known in England as the Solutions for Business "Improving your Resource Efficiency" product.
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Stakeholder Briefing
Sign up to find out how other organisations are reaping the benefits of resource efficiency. -
Commercial and Industrial Waste in England
Defra's statement of aims and actions, October 2009
