Use BREIG to cut your waste, energy and water costs … and boost your business’ profitability
£8,000* CAPITAL GRANT (at up to 20% grant rate):
If you are looking to purchase equipment or machinery that will reduce your company’s waste output, energy and fuel consumption and/ or water usage, then your purchase may qualify for a BREIG capital grant of up to £8,000 (at up to 20% grant rate).
Outlined below is a list of typical equipment or machinery purchases that could yield the savings required within the eligibility criteria# for the BREIG capital grant:
- More efficient, lower energy production equipment
- Modern high efficiency electric motors and drives
- Improved higher efficiency lighting, heating and energy recovery
- Lower energy refrigeration systems and improved insulation
- Water saving and recovery equipment
- Recycling and recovery of waste by products
- Upgraded monitoring equipment and controls
- Greater use of environmentally friendly materials.
Capital Grant Product Fact Sheet (PDF)
£2,000* Consultancy Grants (at a 50% grant rate):
If you are looking for a third party environmental specialist to help you identify and implement changes within your business that would effectively reduce your company’s waste output, energy and fuel consumption and/or water usage, then you may qualify for a BREIG consultancy grant of up to £2,000 (at a 50% grant rate) to help.
Outlined below are examples of consultancy work that could yield the savings required within the eligibility criteria# for the BREIG consultancy grant:
- Energy assessments and monitoring
- Waste identification and reduction
- Water consumption review and improvements
- Developing recycling opportunities
- Support to introduce environmental management systems
Consultancy Grant Product Fact Sheet (PDF)
£500* Training Grants (at a 50% grant rate):
If you are looking to book employee(s) onto a training course where the focus of learning is on efficiency/environmental matters which may then lead to resource efficiency improvements being made within your business, then you could qualify for a BREIG training grant of up to £500 (at a 50% grant rate) to help.
Outlined below are examples of types of training courses that could meet the eligibility criteria# for the BREIG training grant:
- CIWM waste awareness courses
- Training in environmental management systems
- In house training delivered by an external training provider or consultant
- Environmental conferences and events which will lead to learning outcomes
Training Grant Product Fact Sheet (PDF)
Applying for multiple BREIG grants:
You could apply for more than one of the above BREIG grants. However, to be successful you would need to demonstrate that the combined project (ie the combination of grants) would yield more savings than if each project was implemented in isolation.
Apply for a grant now or check our Downloads area for more details.
* These are the maximum amounts that may be awarded
# Eligibility criteria refers to the eligibility of the company and the application for accessing a BREIG grant; the details of which are outlined in the specific grant factsheets available on the website’s downloads page.
