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How to recover solvents and reuse solvents in your business, minimising waste to save disposal costs.

How to minimise the risk of solvent leaks and spills by storing and handling solvents safely in your business.

Check that vehicle refinishing products you manufacture, import, distribute or sell meet relevant solvent limits.

Check that paints and varnishes you manufacture, import, distribute or sell comply with relevant solvent limits.

An environmental review is a three-stage process of assessing environmental performance and making improvements.

The origins of lean methods and using lean tools to maximise the use of resources in your business processes.

How to review and improve your business processes to continue to reduce wastage on an ongoing basis.

Identifying ways of improving process efficiency and reducing waste to increase the profitability of your business.

How to use tried and tested methods to identify and reduce waste and improve the efficiency of your business' processes.

How Lean methods can be used alongside Six Sigma working methods to improve the efficiency of processes.

How implementing Six Sigma on a project-by-project basis can improve quality and reduce waste in your business.

How reducing waste in your operational processes by using Lean Thinking and Six Sigma can benefit your business.

How your business can save money on waste water bills by managing, reducing or treating its trade effluent.

How your business can avoid discharging effluent without permission and potentially incurring costly fines.

Work out if your business needs a trade effluent consent or agreement before you discharge to the public sewer system.

Examples of what is and isn't trade effluent to help you understand your responsibilities when discharging waste water.

An overview of trade effluent, also known as liquid waste, and how its discharge is controlled and regulated.

How geothermal energy and ground source heat pumps work and their advantages and disadvantages for your business.

The pros and cons of solar power, how it works and how to install a solar energy system in Northern Ireland.

How biomass energy and anaerobic digestion work, and their advantages and disadvantages for your business.

How to assess the energy use in your business and consider your options for switching to renewable energy.

How to generate income from renewable energy, including export and feed-in tariffs and green energy certificates.

The business benefits of using renewable energy such as government incentives and saving on energy costs.

The benefits of generating wind, biomass, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric energy and switching to renewables.