Engaging employees in making a company more efficient can deliver great results. Your Workplace Without Waste is an employee engagement programme to inspire staff to throw away less food and packaging. A suite of materials, tools and templates to assist users, train staff, start green teams and run effective campaigns.

Fun activities help employees to:

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) offers a paid on-line training course to develop user skills, helping them to identify and implement best practices in waste management. The course comprises a series of short modules with supporting guides, tools and templates charged separately. 

An online searchable database of organisations in Scotland that implemented resource efficiency measures. Each organisation is featured as a case study outlining the key measures, and carbon and cost savings. In addition, some organisations welcome site visits by others wishing to install similar measures. The database is searchable by postcode, sector, and technology/measure.

A suite of resources to assist a user in developing a financial business case. The accompanying guide shows users how to prepare a robust business case to support a proposed investment decision, and how to present a strong investment case to senior management or external lenders.

A Microsoft® Excel™ based tool helps users to compare alternative heat and fuel sources at the design stage of new-build or refurbishment projects. It guides the user through various pages to supply specific inputs relevant to the heat and fuel sources appraised. The resulting data provides valuable insight on: annual fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and cost, and the net present value of an investment (graphically displayed as printable charts).

Easy-to-use tool to analyse how much lighting is costing an organisation. This free-to-download calculator helps organisations to:

• Assess their lighting costs and needs
• Understand where their lighting could be improved
• Highlight opportunities to save energy, including through smart upgrades in energy-efficient technology

A simple tool which provides three examples of common lighting improvement projects (LED replacements for halogen spotlights, flourescent lighting and factory high-bay lighting upgrades). The calculator takes the user through three alternative lighting projects, looking at initial layout costs, potential savings and payback period.

This tool has proven valuable to those wishing to improve the effectiveness of lighting on their premises. Recent updates have made the tool more user friendly and provide new options for internal and external lighting, including street lighting. The tool carries out an array of calculations to determine the capital costs, annual savings (kWh, £, CO2) and payback periods for the proposed replacement fittings, and generates a series of reports that summarise the potential benefits.

Complete with useful checklists and spreadsheets, this helpful guide takes the user on a journey, from analysing and understanding their energy bills to undertaking their own simple audit, and developing an action plan and business case. The guide also includes a host of tried-and-tested energy-saving ideas to help the user identify opportunities within their own operations.

Poster Creator is a suite of resources that help users create and print signage needed to encourage recycling at workplace, and to ensure that employees understand what and where to recycle.

It provides ready-made posters or templates for users to create signage tailored to the recyclable materials most commonly found in their working environment.