Benefits of Recycling
Empirical evidence suggests that by practising waste prevention, reusing products, recycling, businesses can cut costs and increase profits. Cost savings take the form of:
- Lower waste disposal costs and lower waste treatment costs;
- Lower energy costs;
- Savings on materials and supplies;
- A reduction in regulatory compliance costs;
- Lower storage costs and cost recovery through the sale of recyclable materials;
At the same time, recycling can improve: Production efficiency, Profits, Good neighbour image, Product quality and Environmental performance
Success Factors
- Support and/or programme champion at management level.
- Team with representatives from the shop floor, engineering, office and management.
- Encourage all staff to participate in identifying opportunities and implementing changes in processes.
- Benchmarking current use of resources through ‘input > process > output’ analysis.
- Identify opportunities to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ resources.
- Champion changes in processes to achieve identified opportunities.
- Benchmark changes in resource use to identifying savings in resource purchasing (energy, water, materials), and reductions in ‘waste disposal’.
- Identify new opportunities to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ resources.
- Involve the Suppliers: Suppliers need to be involved as well because of outsourcing in modern companies and one big issue is how to get not only the products from the supplier but also the necessary information.
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