Local recycling services and closing the loop procurement

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Local recycling services and closing the loop
procurement waste exchange

• Shelaine Weller
• Co-ordinator, West Sussex
• Sustainable Business Partnership

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Resource Inefficiencies

• If everyone lived like we do in the South East
  wed need 3.5 planets.
• World resources are limited
• prices are rising for energy and many materials
• Its more important than ever for businesses to
  be efficient.

Source Taking Stock managing our impact An
ecological footprint of the South East (2003)
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UK Efficiency

• UK Economy is only around 10 resource efficient
• Source Biffa/NCBE UK Mass Balance GB plc
  (1997)

UK ECONOMY
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Case Study 1

• Electronic Temperature Instruments, Worthing
• Before
• 6,000 p.a. polystyrene chip packaging
• 300 p.a. for paper disposal
• After buying a paper shredder
• Waste paper replaces polystyrene
• and saves raw materials
• 2 wheelie bins less waste per week

Savings - 6,300 per year
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Case Study 2

• Charles Kirk Co Ltd, Worthing
• Before
• Printed paper only on one side
• Always used new cardboard packaging
• Waste levels from production not monitored
  closely
• After
• Bought duplex printer and used paper on both
  sides saved 150 reams of paper p.a.
• Started re-using cardboard boxes 5 reduction
  in packaging.
• Reduced textile waste by improving fabric cutting
  and monitoring waste 5 reduction in textile
  use.

Savings - 6,700 per annum
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Closing the Loop

• Cyclical rather than linear processes
• Re-using
• Buying recycled
• Waste exchange
• Industrial symbiosis
• One companys waste is anothers raw material

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Linear Process
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Closed Loop Process
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A final thought

• Every action you take in business has two
  components an impact on profits and an impact on
  the world.
• Staking out a path to where profitability and
  social benefits blend is the spot where companies
  who want to remain successful in the long term
  should aim for.
• Andrew W. Savitz Karl Weber -
• The Triple Bottom Line (2006)