Waste management

The elimination of waste is an effective way to increase profitability. Whilst poor waste control costs, not only in terms of monetary losses, but also the impact on the environment & sustainability.

Saving money and the environment

All of the waste that you produce has a cost associated with it.

Waste management is a key area for scrutiny in all businesses nowadays, buying raw materials and components is costly and the costs associated with disposal of waste increases year on year.

The first stage of waste management is to REDUCE your consumption, the less you use of something the less waste will be generated.

Be sure to REUSE anything, either within or outside of your organisation, you can. The key is to remove anything from waste streams that has intrinsic value, converting a waste into a usable material.

The last and most frequently talked about is RECYCLING, recycling waste products or materials for use in other processes or products. Common examples of this are:

• Paper, wood and card recycling
• Glass and plastic bottle recycling
• Green waste composting
• Ferrous and Non-Ferrous metals

However, if you have a particular waste stream that you are currently disposing to “landfill” it may be of value to other organisations as a raw material, you could even get paid for the removal of this “material”. Visit the Wales Environment Trust website for help (http://www.walesenvtrust.org.uk/).