Envirowise Practical Support For Hazardous Waste

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Envirowise Practical Support For Hazardous Waste
Dr Martin Gibson Envirowise Director

• Mick Lynn
• Envirowise South East Agent

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First Convince Yourself
The UK Individual

• Hopeless at recycling
• Worse at reducing waste
• Bottom of the waste league in Western Europe
• The landfill rules - OK!
• UK landfills 90 of waste

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Future Drivers

• Landfill costs
• PPC and site conditioning, site closures,
  increased costs
• Landfill Directive
• Producer Responsibility
• Packaging, EOLV, WEEE
• Regulatory Targets
• BAT, Audit, IPPC and Waste Plans

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Mixed with - Hurdles

• Perceived costs of environmental improvements
• Lack of reprocessing and markets
• Issue of transport and market creation
• Technologies
• Incineration, composting, recycling, digestion
• Poor awareness
• Dont care, cheap options
• Conflicting mechanisms
• Incineration v reuse and recycling
• What - Disappearing landfill?

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Identify Key Issues

• What issues are important to your company?
• Reduce environmental liabilities
• Safeguard/improve performance
• Save money by reducing waste
• Streamline processes and improve product quality
• Improve continuity of supply

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What Are The Barriers?

• Lack of...
• Resources
• Time
• Knowledge
• Money
• Fear of change

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What is Waste Minimisation ?

• Primarily a management tool
• requires commitment at the top
• requires commitment from staff
• Better use of everything e.g.
• raw materials
• Utilities
• Staff time
• Reduced production of wastes

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Cost savings-Example

• Reduced materials, utilities and waste costs
• Increased profits
• Continental Teves GC236
• 26 reduction in caliper weight 42 reduction
  in production time
• 70 reduction (43,000) hydraulic oil consumption
• 81,000 from re-usable packaging

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Cost savings-Example 2
Martin Baker Aircraft Company LTD

• Cost savings of around 58000/year
• Estimated increase of 60 tonnes/year in amount
  of metal recovered
• Volume of metalworking fluid sent for disposal
  reduced by around 45 and concentrate use by
  about 40
• A cleaner and more efficient working environment

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Six Steps in waste minimisation
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Step1 Accounting for waste

• Walk around assessment of waste sources
• - Produce a Waste Map (ET219)
• Assess cost of wasted resources
• - Set up a Waste Account (ET225 / web)
• Process flowsheet to identify priorities
• - Use Cutting Costs by Reducing Waste (GG38C)

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Step 2 Comparing your companies performance

• Compare your performance with others in your
  company
• Get benchmarking guides from Envirowise relevant
  to your sector
• Check whether your company qualifies for a
  FastTrack visit with the Environment and Energy
  Helpline

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Step 3 Identifying waste minimisation
opportunities

• Identify the key areas to take action-prioritising
  
• Walk around your site and identify obvious areas
  of waste
• Take GG219 to help you map wastes
• Use process mapping techniques to show detail
• Order GG38C to help you develop a process map

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Identifying environmental costs on flow charts
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PROCESS FLOWSHEET IN DETAIL
Supplier(raw materials or products)
Heating and Lighting
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Process Flowsheet
Major Input
Wastes
OtherInputs

Wastes
OtherInputs

Value Added
Wastes
OtherInputs


Product
Total value of product
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Cost of cutting fluid and cutting tools per
casting milled
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Prioritising impacts for continuous improvement

• Rule of thumb - the biggest impacts have the
  biggest costs and present the biggest
  opportunities for cost savings and resource
  efficiency
• Scoring system to give structure and build
  agreement

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Step 4 Commitment to action

• Make a rough plan of ideas
• Make sure waste reduction is included in the
  business plan
• Brainstorm ideas with staff
• Generate ideas to improve performance and
  competitiveness
• Get GG125 from Envirowise to help make your case
  and present your ideas
• GG27 tells you how to organise teams for success

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Step 5 Taking action to reduce waste

• Turn rough plan into an Action Plan
• Identify no-cost and low-cost ideas
• Start with good housekeeping measures
• Identify where leaks, wastes and problems may be
  wasting money
• Order ET30 to get 200 Tips for Reducing Waste
• Ring the Helpline for advice

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Step 6 Recognising success and maintaining
momentum

• Return to your baseline and measure progress
• Identify cost savings as well as environmental
  benefits
• Waste reduction is ongoing - not a once only
  action!
• For continuous improvement review progress
  against targets regularly

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You are not alone- Envirowise can help
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Environment Energy Helpline0800 585794

• Free, confidential impartial
• 2 hours specialist advice
• Signposting to other advice
• Publication orders
• Visits
• Available to any business

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FastTrack Visits

• Getting started with waste minimisation
• 1 day of specialist advisers time
• Assessment of processes and waste
• Actions to reduce waste make savings
• Usually lt250 employees

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Counselling Visits

• Specific issues
• 1/2 day of specialist advisers time
• Recommendations for actions to help resolve that
  issue
• Usually lt250 employees

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Web-sitewww.envirowise.gov.uk

• News, information on legislation, events local
  organisations
• Downloadable publications
• COMING THIS YEAR
• Searchable web area on legislation
• More information on hazardous waste

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Publications

• gt 400 case studies, good practice guides, etc.
• COMING THIS YEAR
• Concise briefing publication for CEOs on
  hazardous waste
• Technical guide for site / technical managers on
  hazardous waste
• 4 short case studies

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Examples - Videos and Software

• Cutting Costs by Reducing Waste (Video). An
  introduction to the benefits of waste
  minimisation V159
• A Fresh Pair of Eyes (Video) Identifying Waste
  Minimisation Opportunities V217
• WasteWise Increased Profits at your Fingertips
  (IT313) - an interactive waste minimisation
  CD-ROM
• Seven Practical Workshops IT341

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Tools

• COMING THIS YEAR
• HazNet hazardous waste best practice database
• Joint project with the Environment Agency

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Summary

• Lots of help is available
• Lots more help is on the way
• Businesses urgently need to start taking action
• Now you know where to get help!
• www.envirowise.gov.uk
• 0800 585794