Environmental Management Systems benefits to your bottom line and the marketing department

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Environmental Management Systems benefits to
your bottom line and the marketing department

• Dr Alistair Bromhead, Envirowise

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Content

• What is an Environmental Management System (EMS)
• How does an EMS work
• Benefits
• Saving money
• Free help and advice from Envirowise

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What is an EMS?

• Way of ensuring that environmental management is
  addressed properly, by everyone, on an ongoing
  basis
• Two main aims
• Secure legal compliance
• Achieve ongoing improvement

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How does an EMS work

• Establish the baseline
• Identify priority issues
• Put mechanism into place to address these issues
  
• Programmes
• Targets and objectives
• Recording of progress
• Use of procedures to control key areas
• Undertake training
• Audit the system internally
• Use of external third party audits

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Benefits for marketing

• Certified systems
• BS7750
• EMAS Eco Management and Audit Scheme
• ISO 14001 International Standard for
  Environmental Management Systems
• BS 8555 phased implementation
• Ensures that checks are made on compliance issues
  and improvements
• Ensures that benefits are recorded and quantified

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Practical benefits

• Less waste
• Lower cost
• Less environmental impact
• Positive response to customer pressure
• Ensure the meeting of legal requirements
• To create a more sustainable business

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Cost savings

• Can we really save?
• YES
• 1 of turnover typical Envirowise goal
• BUT
• Quantify establish the baseline
• Waste management hierarchy

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Quantify establish the baseline

• Need to measure to manage
• Need to measure to show improvement
• Consumption
• Raw materials
• Packaging
• Gas, electricity, oil water consumption
• Waste generation
• Impact on local environment
• Presence of surface water drains / foul sewers
• Contaminated land potential

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Establish the true cost of waste

• Disposal costs
• Cost of paper raw materials
• Labour moving, storing, filling trays
• Labour printing, transporting
• Labour cleaners
• Space consumption
• True cost 5-20 timescost of disposal

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The waste management hierarchy
Eliminate Reduce Reuse Recycle Recover Dispos
e
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Achieving paper savings

• Quantify
• Total use
• Break down main uses
• Convert into comprehendible format
• Chart
• Set targets
• Incentives
• Give ownership

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Achieving paper savings

• Eliminate / reduce
• Communicate electronically
• Rationalise circulation lists
• Switch default to double sided
• Training on printer use
• Rationalise printers longer walks!

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Achieving paper savings

• Reuse
• Collect single sided paper
• Use for draft printing
• Scribbling pads
• Recycle
• Fold / dont scrumple
• Ratio of paper to general waste bins
• General
• Monitor quantify
• Provide feedback reward

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Question for you

• Can you save paper?

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Energy

• Quantify
• Look at your bills
• Are there reactive charges
• How does the available supply relate to
  maximum demand
• Can you get half hourly data
• If so, do you recognise your profile
• How much is used out of hours

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Energy

• Eliminate - turn it off, e.g. lights
• Label switches
• Relate switches to useful zones
• Make everyone responsible
• Staff
• Cleaners
• Security
• Light / movement sensors
• High efficiency fittings

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Energy

• Eliminate other uses
• Heating
• Air con
• Timers
• Doors windows
• Thermostat who controls
• Server rooms
• Heating and air con

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Energy

• Eliminate other uses
• Vending machines
• Water coolers
• PCs, printers copiers

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Question for you

• Can you save energy?

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Cleaner design - what is it?

• Design to reduce environmental impact and improve
  efficiency
• Essentially intelligent design
• Considering the whole product life cycle
• Resulting in more sustainable products

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Cleaner design the result

• More efficient products
• Cheaper to make
• Quicker to make
• Smaller environmental footprint
• Less transport weight / volume / cost
• More appropriate to end user needs
• New markets and marketing opportunities

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Cleaner design principles

• Increase service efficiency
• Product service systems
• Method in which service is provided
• E.g. retention of ownership by manufacturer
• Reduce material intensity
• Optimise material selection
• Material origin and constituents
• Recycled content
• Compatibility with neighbouring materials
• Reduce number of material types

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Cleaner design principles

• Increase the useful lifetime of embodied
  resources
• Repairability / modularity / upgradeability
• Jointing methods / separability
• Economic viability of end-of-life dismantling
• Labelling of component parts
• Increase energy efficiency
• In use and in sleep mode
• Reduce releases
• From manufacture
• During use

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Envirowise Assistance

• Help is available,
• Free of charge and confidential
• Helpline 0800 585794
• 2 hours free advice
• Tailored Visits
• Fast track resource efficiency audits
• Design track visits

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Envirowise Assistance

• Publications
• Green officiency
• Waste Mapping
• 200 tips on reducing waste
• Workshops seminars
• E.g. Product Dismantling Workshops
• Resource Efficiency Clubs
• www.envirowise.gov.uk

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Envirowise Assistance

• South East Regional Manager Holly Firmin
• Tel [phone]
• Email holly.firmin_at_envirowise.gov.uk

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• THANK YOU
• Dr Alistair Bromhead, Envirowise
• 07932 674 707