The Circularity Check is a free, online self-evaluation tool for companies, in particular SMEs, that determines a circularity score for a specific product and/or service. In the form of a questionnaire, the tool comprises about 60 questions to check whether the product/service is circular and sustainable, and if so, to what extent. A score is assigned to each question; the higher the score the better.

NetRegs is a website set up to help small businesses in Scotland and Northern Ireland become more environmentally aware.  It has been developed by a partnership between the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in Scotland and the Northern Ireland Enviro

This programme is an SME financial support instrument managed under the KET4CleanProduction initiative of the European Commission. 

Micro Grants are offered for transnational cooperation projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and minimum 2 KET technology centres (KET TCs), which aim to integrate key enabling technologies (KET) to solve clean production challenges. Focus is on upgrading production processes.

SUBSPORT is a comprehensive portal offering information on products and technologies for evaluating, reducing or substituting hazardous chemical use.

It is a useful tool for companies wanting to meet requirements under EU REACH legislation, and a valuable resource for authorities, environmental and consumer organisations, and scientific institutions.

The portal includes a databases of cases and stories which serve as inspiration and offer concrete help to companies or organisations.

The SUBSPORT portal includes:

This simple tool calculates water and financial savings that can be achieved by installing waterless urinals in an organisation.

The calcluation is made based on answering three simple questions:

• How many people use the urinal?
• How many times a day does each person use it?
• How many days per week is the urinal used?

Green Ideas for Tourism is a project that developed an educational tool in a field of sustainable tourism. The tool helps tourism stakeholders keep up to date with the latest developments in the circular economy, blue economy and other cradle-to-cradle, resource efficiency and environmental principles. Modules illustrate how and why these concepts are applied in practice in order to better prepare those studying tourism for the challenges of managing a sustainable business.

The Better Building Partnership, which is a private initiative of British commercial property owners, has released a new office fit-out toolkit for owners and occupiers. The toolkit provides a structured process to retrofit interior fittings, incorporating sustainability and wellbeing principles.

The LCC tools enable life-cycle costing in a procurement process to get the full picture associated with a product, service or works.

LCC shows that the purchase price is only one of several cost parameters connected to purchasing and owning a product. A life-time cost assessment also includes operating costs, including energy, fuel or water usage, maintenance and disposal costs. An LCC calculation may also include the cost of externalities, such as greenhouse gas emissions.

The following MS Excel-based calculators are available:

The European SME Week is a pan-European campaign that aims to promote entrepreneurship in Europe. An initiative of the European Commission, it helps existing entrepreneurs find information on available support and tries to encourage more people to set up their own businesses. The main objectives of the SME Week are to:

The  Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is neither a label nor a certification scheme. It focuses on ensuring that enivonmental claims made by companies are structured and complete, to present a clear assessment of a technology's potential and value. It does not evaluate the technology's performance against standard or pre-defined criteria.