Green Bin Update
If you are signed up to our Garden Waste Service, collections finish on Friday, 13th December, 2024.
This is the last week of collections for the year.
Collections will recommence in the New Year from Monday, 13th January, 2024.
Green Solutions
South Staffordshire businesses can get help to make their business greener
Green Solutions is a programme that offers support to businesses in South Staffordshire to enable you to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Green Solutions is funded by the council’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund allocation and Staffordshire County Council.
You can access support for any of the following:
- Carbon Literacy Training. This FREE 8-hour training course will provide you the knowledge and skills to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You can choose whether to attend an in-person or online course, and the training is accredited by the Carbon Literacy Project, you can book a place on the course on their website.
- Energy Efficiency Review. This FREE review will look at your energy consumption and provide you with recommendations to save money and reduce your carbon emissions.
- Low Carbon Grant. A grant of between £1,000 and £20,000 (cover up to 50% of eligible costs) is available per business to implement any of the recommendations from the Energy Efficiency Review.
This list is an example of technologies and is not exhaustive:
Ventilation (fans, distribution, destratification fans)
Heating (replacement boilers, burners, heat pumps)
Renewable technologies and battery storage*
Lighting (LED, controls, sensors)
Refrigeration
Compressors
Insulation
Recycling & Waste (compactors, balers & crushers)
Water management
Other buildings measures e.g. glazing
Cooling Controls
Equipment upgrades Hot water efficiency measures
Humidification
Small appliances
Submetering where monitoring of an energy consuming process could drive reductions in consumption.
The following dates for carbon literacy training are now available:
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 and Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 9.30am to 1.30pm - online*.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 9.30am to 5.00pm - in person.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 and Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 9.30am to 1.30pm - online*.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - in person at 9.30am to 5.00pm - in person.
Please note: our online CLT courses are for two four-hour morning sessions on consecutive days.
*Online course starts with an IT check at 9.15am.
For more information and to register your interest click here