The Environmental Performance of Home-Based Businesses in Western Australia

The role and impact of very small firms is usually overlooked by most research into the environmental performance of businesses. This is due in part to their relative invisibility: most of these so-called "micro-enterprises" employ no staff, work from home, and are concentrated in the services sector of the economy. In contrast, most existing studies have examined larger firms in the manufacturing, retail and industrial sectors, where inputs, waste and resource usage are both more easily observed and more frequently measured.