Are you a small or medium sized business looking to make immediate savings with little or no capital investment? If so, greenbusiness.ie can provide guidance and assistance to help you achieve this through improved resource efficiency techniques.

With continually escalating waste and water charges, and ever-increasing energy costs, businesses are starting to look at reducing their overheads and adopting smarter, greener ways of doing business.  greenbusiness.ie is a free service funded under the National Waste Prevention Programme (led by the Environmental Protection Agency) aimed at all businesses and organisations across Ireland.

greenbusiness.ie represents an innovative approach to resource efficiency and its aim is to assist businesses to deliver substantive results and savings on resource efficiency improvements and cost savings through:

• Waste prevention and minimisation.
• Improved management of water and effluent.
• Reductions in energy consumption.

So what does greenbusiness.ie provide?

The initiative is centred around a website at www.greenbusiness.ie incorporating the following free services and support:

• User-friendly online waste, water and energy audit tools to help you monitor and manage your resources.
• A telephone helpline to answer your environmental concerns.
• Free Resource Efficiency Assessments for your site, providing one-to-one advice and assistance.
• Case studies and top tips on best practice in resource efficiency.
• Links to other websites providing information on resource efficiency and environmental legislation.

All information and data generated are treated in the strictest confidence and users are only permitted to access their own greenbusiness.ie account(s).  Each business’ anonymity is maintained in the production of amalgamated and sectoral benchmarking statistics which all registered users can use to assess their own business’ performance against specific key performance indicators.

Did you know………..

Printers consume 30%-40%   of their peak power demand when idling between printing and standby and a photocopier left on over night uses enough energy to make 5,300 photocopies.

One ton of paper from recycled pulp saves 17 trees, 2.5 cubic metres of landfill space, 26,500 litres of water, 4,200kWh (enough to heat a home for half a year), 1,475 litres of oil, and prevents 27 kilograms of air pollutants.

In factories, it’s not uncommon for hoses to be left running to drain all day.  It is estimated that this can cost €51,800 a year, almost the equivalent of buying a new Porsche Boxster every year.

Ready to become a Green Business?  Then visit www.greenbusiness.ie and register to start saving your business money; or contact us at contactus@greenbusiness.ie or 1850 473361 (1850-GREEN1).