Mineral products
This environmental guidance is for businesses that manufacture mineral products from raw materials to finished articles, including:
- abrasive products, e.g. abrasive grain, coated abrasives, bonded abrasives and super abrasives
- cement and pre-cast concrete products, e.g. ready-mixed concrete, mortars and fibre cement
- ceramic products, e.g. tiles, bricks, household ceramics, sanitary ware, technical ceramics and refractory products
- glass and glass products, e.g. flat glass, container glass, glass fibre, fibreglass, household glass and specialist glass products
- plaster and plaster products.
- Air pollution
- Carbon reduction and efficiency
- Emergency response
- Environmental management
- Materials and equipment
- Nuisances
- Permits and licences
- Trade associations and BSOs
- Transport
- Waste
- Water
- Buying eco-friendly goods and services
- Cutting your carbon emissions
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) benefits and opportunities for business
- The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental tax obligations and breaks
- Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme (ESOS)
- EU and UK Emissions Trading Scheme
- Generate renewable energy
- Towards a Circular Economy
- Cost cutting measures: The savings calculator
- Packaging and packaging waste
- Registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)
- Chemical storage
- Oil and Fuel Storage
- Boiler insulation materials
- Recycling and disposing of plaster and plaster products
- Delivery, handling and storage of powdered materials
- Preventing problems with Silos
- Fuel and fueling: storing oil, petrol and diesel
- Duty of care - Your waste responsibilities
- Hazardous / special waste
- Reduce, reuse and recycle your business waste
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- Broken ceramics
- Crushing or grinding waste tiles or other ceramics
- Reusing waste cullet in glass manufacture
- Storage & transport of waste
- Burning waste oil as fuel
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