Tools
Below you will find some useful tools to help you get the most out of the Envirowise program.
Access to these free tools requires login or registration
- Green Street, NEW
Green Street is a novel and fun way to help businesses consider their environmental impact, improve their knowledge of resource efficiency and save money. The street consists of a hotel, restaurant, public house, office and factory. Each building has up to six different rooms relating to the type of services each establishment provides. Within the different rooms there are a variety of hotspots containing tips and advice on how to make that item more resource efficient and where to find more information.
- Embedding Behaviour Change
This tool provides businesses with practical advice on how to motivate staff and influence senior management to bring about behaviour change. A change in culture can increase resource efficiency and give the company greater cost savings.
- Envirowise Publications Wizard
Select the information you are looking for by sector and topic and get presented with a tailor-made PDF.
- EMS- Envirowise Publications Wizard
An EMS (Environmental Management System) provides you with a framework to systematically manage your environmental issues. It can help you implement and report on your environmental initiatives, with the benefit of raising the profile of your work. The EMS publication wizard will provide you with a tailored guide on how to do this for your business.
- Envirowise Indicator
An interactive web-based tool designed to allow all UK businesses, irrespective of their size or industry sector, to gain a useful indication of their company's environmental impact and the financial savings that can be made by addressing it.
- Pack-In - A Packaging Indicator for eco-design
Free web-based tool that will give an indication of the environmental impact of packaging designs. It will also compare designs to help decide which one has the least environmental impact and how this could be improved further.
- Savings Calculator
Do you work in an office based business? In three simple steps, the Envirowise Savings Calculator tool can identify the potential cost savings you could make around your office each year. In addition to calculating your savings, the tool offers practical guides to help you on your path to reducing costs.
- Green Officiency Toolkit
The Green Officiency CD ROM Toolkit can help any company who has an office. The campaign aims to reduce resource use and waste creation in offices by encouraging staff and managers to work together.
- Supply Chain Toolkit
The Supply Chain Toolkit is aimed at organisations who want to establish a partnership with their own suppliers. The toolkit contains all the information, presentations and notes that you will need to make your supply chain partnership successful.
Water Tools
- Monitoring tool
Helps you to easily record and track where water is being used in your company and analyse your findings.
- Water account tool
Enables you to compare your water consumption with other businesses in your sector.
- Mogden formula tool
Calcuates the charges applied to industry for the conveyance and treatment of their effluents discharged to sewer.
- Water Efficiency Tool
A series of modules providing guidance and call to actions for water efficiency.
Construction
- SWMP builder
An excel spread sheet that aids in organising all the likely types and quantities of waste arising on a construction site, offering options for waste management, reduced ordering; reusing on site or recycling etc.
Chemicals
Retail
- Managed Shopping Centre Toolkit
The Managed Shopping Centre Toolkit is aimed at owners of shopping centres who wish to improve their environmental performance and need to involve tenants. The toolkit provides advise and information for the shopping centre management on how to engage with the tenants and also includes separate advise for tenants.
Engineering Tools
- Platewise
An Excel-based tool to help electroplating companies optimise productivity by increasing materials efficiency and environmental performance. This tool will enable you to identify cost savings through the calculation of the costs and investment for a broad range of surface treatment systems and processes.
- Paint for Profit CD ROM
This CD ROM, geared towards the vehicle body repair industry, provides ways of reviewing the amount of paint and solvent used, and the latest tips and techniques for managing and handling materials. It offers practical information to keep companies competitive by maximising the use of raw materials.