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Waste online has a useful information sheet 'Waste at Work' with advice, tips and sources of further information on reducing waste, recycling and buying 'green' products. 

Find out more on the Waste Online website.

Envirowise is a government-funded organisation that offers free, confidential advice to UK organisations to help them to reduce their environmental impact.

 

Envirowise produces information on energy efficiency, waste & recycling and water saving at work, resources such as posters and leaflets and a useful guide, Green Efficiency, with tips on to how to start greening your workplace.

See the Envirowise website for more information.

The Carbon Trust helps and advises organisations on saving energy and cutting carbon emissions.

 

You can order a free starter pack with tips on saving energy including an energy saving fact sheet, a poster and stickers from the Carbon Trust website.

In September 2006 the TUC published First Steps to a Greener Workplace, a guide that describes what the TUC and unions are doing on climate change and related green issues. You can download the guide from the TUC sustainable workplace website.
The unions in the Trade Union Trade Union Sustainable Development Advisory Committee (TUSDAC) produced a major report, Greening the Workplace, in June 2005.

 

 Greening the Workplace aims to encourage trade unions to tackle the growing challenge of climate change, by using our influence at work, in our own organisations, through contacts with Government, and internationally.

The report contains a series of recommendations for action that the government, employers and unions should take. The full report is available on the TUC sustainable workplace website.

In 2004 The Department for International Development (DFID) and Rough Guides teamed up to produce The Rough Guide to a Better World.

The guide, which explains how we can all help in the fight against world poverty, covers a wide range of topics including: campaigning, fundraising, buying fair trade, ethical trading & ethical investment and ethical tourism.

You can download the Rough Guide to a Better World from the DFID website.

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