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Resource efficiency and environmental performance

Being efficient with resources - including water, energy, packaging, transport, raw materials and waste - benefits all businesses. It streamlines operations and can collectively save UK companies, large and small, several billions of pounds each year.

It also benefits the environment through better use of finite assets and a reduction in carbon emissions.

Resource efficiency is central to the Government’s Sustainable Consumption and Production Programme. It’s also a core part of our own corporate strategy. We’re increasingly helping businesses to help themselves while safeguarding our environment for us all and generations to come.

Here you can learn how to reduce waste and save water. Help prevent pollution with our ten-point checklist and pollution prevention guidance (PPGs). Find out how the cement, chemical, nuclear and dairy farming industries are performing with our Sector Plans and Report.

Over half of the top 250 UK companies now report their environmental performance in the knowledge that it can strongly influence investment.

All stock market listed companies are required to disclose in their annual report any important environmental issues that affect their business performance.

  • Our role in resource efficiency

    Find out what our role is in resource efficiency, where we are working with business to make the best use of resources and what we are doing within our own operations.

  • Green supply chain

    Find out how to minimise your environmental impact through your supply chain.

  • Sector plans

    Find out more about our sector plan approach and read published plans for the cement, chemicals, nuclear and dairy farming industries.

  • Environmental finance

    Find out how we are working alongside the financial and business sector to help them become 'greener'.