INDEPENDENT retailers in Bury can take a big step towards cutting waste and utility bills by taking advantage of a range of free fact sheets available online from Envirowise.

Check Out: Recycling and Waste and Check Out: Utilities provide information to help stores manage their resources more efficiently by reducing waste, water consumption and energy use. The new good-practice fact sheets also set out how much retailers could potentially save.

Envirowise regional manager, Nick Ward said: "Unnecessary waste is costing the industry as a whole a staggering £360 million each year. Yet businesses can make substantial progress in cutting these costs by following the straightforward advice in these new fact sheets."

Visit www.envirowise.

gov.uk/easymoney. Visit the website or call Envirowise on 0800 585 794.