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Guidance on how you can find a suitable waste management training provider or course to train your staff.

Waste disposal, recycling or waste trading business can find it useful to join a professional body or trade association.

How to identify staff training requirements to help your business meet its waste management responsibilities.

Using the waste management hierarchy to choose how to deal with waste and make your business more efficient.

Definitions of environmental damage to land, water and biodiversity and exemptions of environmental damage controls

What to do if your business poses an imminent threat of environmental damage to water, land or biodiversity

How to create a pollution incident response plan to minimise the effects of pollution incidents and save clean-up costs

Your responsibilities for cleaning up and remedying environmental damage caused by your business

Prevent pollution and costly environmental damage by using some simple environmental practices in your business

How to assess the life cycle of your products and services to calculate the possible impact on the environment

How to correctly dispose of waste electrical and electronic equipment containing hazardous substances

Obligations if you are a retailer or distributor of electrical and electronic equipment under the WEEE Regulations

How the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations affect producers, distributors and users

When you need an authorisation or licence for taking or storing water from a surface or groundwater source

Tips on how to engage your business in saving water and practical tips for minimising water use

Some of the financial and non-financial benefits of taking a sustainable approach to water use in your business

How you can assess the cost of your business water use by analysing how much water you use across all operations

How to use water efficiently, the benefits of saving water and your responsibilities if you take or store water

How your business can use a compliance scheme to comply with the producer responsibility obligations for packaging

How to comply with packaging producer responsibility obligations without using a compliance scheme

What your business must do to comply with the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations if you’re in scope

How to save your business money by reducing the amount of packaging you use, and other efficiency ideas

Find out if the producer responsibility obligations for packaging and packaging waste apply to your business

When your business might be exempt from the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations and specific examples

Ways of reducing the packaging waste from your business, from better packaging design to reuse and recycling