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Title: Business Impact on the Environment:

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Business Impact on the Environment Mitigation
through Resource Efficiency
Roger Wilson
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Releases to air
Nuisance
Solid Waste
Noise Other Nuisance
Discharge to Water
Discharge to Sewer

Ground Contamination
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National Research
How concerned are you about the impact of Climate
Change in the UK?
How much influence do you think can have on
limiting Climate Change?
The UK Government Industry and businesses You, personally Your local community
1. No influence 11 10 26 17
2. A little influence 13 17 45 40
3. Some influence 21 21 21 29
4. A large influence 52 50 7 12
Don't Know 3 3 1 3
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European Commission Data

raise concerns that householders can do little
to save the environment.
Instead, big companies need to cut their carbon
dioxide emissions if climate change is to be
halted.

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Solutions to Climate Change

Adapt to changes
New products
New processes
New lifestyles
Mitigate the causes
Consume less
Be more efficient
Change our behaviour

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Solutions?

Adapt to changes
New products
New processes
New lifestyles
Mitigate the causes
Consume less
Be more efficient
Change our behaviour

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Government Action

To change our behaviour
Legislation
Taxation
Support

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Trends in Environmental Legislation

Dilution is the solution to pollution (up to
1970s)
Treatment is the solution to pollution (1980s)
Prevention is the solution to pollution (1990s)
Producer responsibility is the solution to
pollution (2000s)

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Releases to air EPA 90 PPCA 99 Clean Air Act
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Nuisance EPA Part III 90
Solid Waste EPA Part II 90 EP (DoC) Regs 91
Noise Other Nuisance EPA Part III 90 COPA 74
Discharge to Water WRA 91 Oil Storage
Regs Anti-Pollution Works Regs
Discharge to Sewer Water Ind Act 91
Ground Contamination EPA Part IIA 90 Cont Land
Regs 00
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Waste
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Site Waste Management Plans

Voluntary Code of Practice launched July 2004
Incorporated into Clean Neighbourhoods
Environment Act 2005, Part 5 Chapter 3 Section 54
Required by some LAs under planning process
Formal consultation 2 April until 9 July 2007
Parliamentary process after consultation
Expected to come into force 6 April 2008
Mandatory, but expected to be self regulatory

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SWMPs Construction Process
Planning
Demolition Protocol
Design out waste
Refurbishment
Recycled content
Newbuild Refurbishment
Contracts Contractors Materials
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Plan to Avoid This!

Poor housekeeping
Poor risk management
Health Safety
Environment
Poor financial control

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Landfill Tax

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What is Envirowise?

Government Programme est.1994
FREE CONFIDENTIALhelp for all businesses
Promotes better environmental practices that
reduce business costs through a focus on
Resource Efficiency
Shows that environmental improvements can
actually
Save Money
Reduce Re-use Recycle
Waste Management Legal Advice

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Resource Efficiency

Making the most of available resources
raw materials, water, energy, equipment,
fixed assets
Thereby reducing waste and increasing
profitability of industry commerce

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Waste Hierarchy
Highest Priority

Eliminate
Reduce
Re-use
Recover
Recycle
Energy
Compost
Dispose
Treat dispose

Lowest Priority
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Industry Sectors
Ceramics Electronics Engineering Food
Drink Foundries Furniture Glass Construction
Metal Finishing Paper Board Plastics Printing Re
tail Supply Chain Speciality Chemicals Textiles Co
mmerce
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Average 4 of turnover for manufacturing.Up to
15 of project cost for construction.
True Cost of Waste
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Rules of Thumb Savings

Year-on-year savings
Manufacturing
1 of turnover or
1000/employee

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Envirowise Services

Helpline
Publications
Workshops seminars
Website e newsletters
Site visits to businesses
Water Technology List
Support for BSOs, RECs SCPs
Signposting to local services
FREE CONFIDENTIAL

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Helpline

Freephone 0800 585 794
Any environmental or resource efficiency question
2 hours free specialist advice
Signposting to other sources of information -
especially local
Requests for publications
Requests for visits

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www.envirowise.gov.uk

News
Events
Publications
Interactive Helpline pages
Regional information pages
REC map and information
Email notification of whats new
Links to other sites

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Resource Efficiency in Practice
Commitment to Action
Preparation
Organisation for Action
Baseline
Options for Improvement
Monitoring Review
Journey
Actions
Dissemination
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Scope to Save
COLUMN 1 Resources and services COLUMN 2 Quantity COLUMN 3 Cost per year COLUMN 4 Scope to save COLUMN 5 Estimate of scope to save COLUMN 6 Ranking of priority (Highest 1)
Raw materials First most used Second most used Third most used All other materials Packaging Ancillary materials Consumables Energy Electricity Heat for process and space heating e.g. gas and fuel oil Vehicle fuel Water Trade effluent Solid and liquid waste 1 to 5 1 to 5 1 to 5 1 to 5 10 to 90 5 to 20 10 to 30 5 to 20 10 to 30 10 to 30 20 to 80 20 to 80 10 to 50
Total
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Waste Mapping
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Chipco Ltd - Process Flowsheet
Potatoes
Storage
Effluent Mud Potatoes - green - undersized -
sprouting
Water Energy
Washing / Sorting
Effluent Peelings / scourings/offcuts
Energy
Scouring/Shaping
Water Salt
Salt Water Rinse
Salt Water
Offcuts Water
Slice / Agitate
Energy
Air Dry Oven
Waste oil Product losses
Oil Energy
Fry
Flavour losses Waste cleaning materials
Flavourings Cleaning materials
Flavour
Air Dry Oven
Energy
Scrap packaging product
Foil Packaging
Pack
Boxes, Shrinkwrap pallets
Scrap packaging
Boxed
Warehouse
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If you dont measure it, you cant
manage it!How will you know if you have
won?