Green Solutions for Small Business

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Green Solutions for Small Business
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Greenstar is Irelands leading provider of
environmental, waste management and recycling
services offering a range of expert services
customised to suit the requirements of small
businesses from collection, waste minimisation,
recovery, recycling consultancy and waste
auditing.
 
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Green Business Benefits

• Strategic Impact
• Legal Compliance
• Cost Savings

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Green Business Benefits

• Business that take strategic approach save the
  most money
• UK and Ireland experience suggests a total saving
  of 4-5 of turnover.
• Reducing waste, automatically makes process more
  efficient
• Reducing overhead
• Savings in time and money
• Increased competitiveness

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The Legislative Opportunity
1990-1995
1996-2000
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2002 - 2003
2003 - 2007
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Green Business Benefits

• Cost savings
• General Waste
• Highest cost
• Mixed Recyclables
• lower cost
• Baled Recyclables
• revenue stream

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Cut waste in your production
Understand your processes!
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Reduce your packaging waste

• A high percentage of waste in business is
  packaging
• Use recycled material where possible
• Reuse your own packing to create new packaging
• If you dont it will mean sending unnecessary
  packaging to landfill

Cost
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Reduce waste in your office

• Suppliers take away excess packaging
• Recycle paper, printer toner and ink cartridges
• Cancel junk mail
• Use electronic communication
• Reuse paper
• Re-use envelopes

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Waste Management Action Plan
With commitment of Senior Management Appoint a
Champion
Set up Green Team / working group
Undertake Waste Assessment
Contact your existing provider
Carry out detailed waste review / audit
Analyse the data
Or just get your Waste Management Provider to do
it for you!
Look at best practice
Prepare Action Plan Set Targets
Awareness Campaign to staff
Celebrate success
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• The Montenotte Hotel on Corks North side is a
  100 Bedroom hotel
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• Poor segregation over reliance on landfill
• Poor recycling awareness 10 recycling rate
• Poor cost control
• No internal signage
• No professional advice on best practice.
• Infrequent collections
• No Green Advocate
• Static waste management practice

 
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• The Montenotte Hotel on Corks North side is a
  100 Bedroom hotel
• NOW
• Recycling programme developed in partnership
  with Hotel
• Focus on segregation
• Increased awareness through education, training
  and signage
• Increased recycling service
• 50 recycling after 3 months
• Reduction in waste bill of 35
• Continuous improvement recycling target of 70

 
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How Green can you go?

• Take a strategic approach to waste management
• To start with, review your activity and processes
  and implement a basic recycling programme
  immediate cost savings of up to 20 can be
  achieved
• Get the experts in to help!
• Ask your waste provider to look at other waste
  streams and develop a waste minimisation
  programme to make further savings of between
  30-40
• Recycling Rates of 70-90 are achievable
• Plan ahead having a strategy in place that
  exceeds legal requirements saves time and money
• There is a wealth of further information
  available, just ask!

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Thank You
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Michael Sanfey Greenstar Unit 6, Ballyogan
Business Park Ballyogan Road Sandyford, D18 Tel
01- 2947900
 
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Keith McCormack Greenstar Unit 6, Ballyogan
Business Park Ballyogan Road Sandyford, D18 Tel
01- 2947900