There is a range of support available to UK businesses to help improve your environmental performance.

Managing your environmental impact makes good business sense whatever size your organisation is. You can strengthen your business and maximise opportunities by:

• Realising bottom-line efficiency savings - "Common Sense is not always Common Practice" - there are often opportunities to reduce waste in procurement, fuel use, travel and waste management that can save you money in the short term as well as the longer term
• Winning new business - Increasingly procurers are looking to green their supply chains and that means you need to demonstrate your own green credentials in order to win business
• Building your reputation with stakeholders - clients, partners and staff increasingly want to see the environment being taken seriously and reduce risks by working with a responsible and forward-thinking business
• Innovating Change - there are increasing opportunities in the marketplace for new products & services that take the environment into consideration.

 Business Link is the gateway to environmental business advice and support services in the UK.

Trained Advisors can help you with:
• identifying opportunities for resource efficiency savings
• providing information on free/ subsidised support available from BREW partners (such as the Carbon Trust, Envirowise, Environment Agency, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme, WRAP)
• signposting to third party businesses through their Supplier Matching Service

Call 0845 600 9966 or email environment@businesslinksw.co.uk.

Business Link have a quick guide to support. If you want to access tools and resources to help with a specific aspect of improving your environmental performance, take a look at our quick guides in the Advice and Support section.