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A baseline is a snapshot of your current environmental impacts taken over a 12 month period. You need to cover:
1. Waste
a. how much does your bins service cost
b. how much actual waste volume is removed – you might not b...

Here are a few supply chain strategies that can be used to reduce purchasing waste.
Buy local. There are great social, economic and of course environmental benefits of supporting your local economy. This is not appropriate in all cases though as sometimes there is a greater env...

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) will affect large public and private sector organisations across the UK. Likely participants will include supermarkets, water companies, banks, local authorities (including state-funded schools) and all central Government Departments.
The CRC Energy Efficiency...

If an employer lends or hires bicycles or cyclists safety equipment to employees the benefit of this is exempt from tax on employment income if the following conditions are satisfied:
the bicycles or equipment are available generally to all employees of the employer (this does not mean that e...

Part of your Green Travel Policy may be to encourage staff to commute by public transport.
The benefit of a works bus service is exempted from tax if the following conditions are satisfied:
the service is provided to transport employees on “qualifying journeys” that are:
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Did you know that as part of the government’s programme to manage climate change, Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECA) are available to encourage businesses to invest in certain types of equipment? ECA are 100 per cent first year allowances enabling a business to reliev...
