Derek Doherty

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• Derek Doherty
• Operations Director

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Company Background

• Rich Sauces was founded in 1987 by Trevor Kells
• The business is privately owned
• We manufacture a broad range of the highest
  quality mayonnaise, sauces, dressings and
  bouillons
• Our factory is located in Newtownards
• We supply customers in UK, Ireland, USA, Middle
  East Europe

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Everyone wants to change the world but nobody
wants to change Paraphrase of Leo
Tolstoy Russian author, War and Peace
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Environmental Management System

• Create our team
• Roles and responsibilities
• Monitor, measure, and save Energy, resource
  money
• Create environmental policies for the business
• Set short, medium and long term goals
• Short understand our waste (3 -6 months)
• Medium create an EMS for the business (6-9
  months)
• Long-term work towards accreditation for our
  EMS (ISO 14001)
• This was achieved in 9 months against objective
  target of 12-18 months

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Key Factors in our Policy

• We assessed our energy and waste streams
• Water mains water
• Electricity lighting / refrigeration /
  machinery
• Dry Waste paper / cardboard / plastic / wood
• Wet Waste wash water / waste product / effluent
• Train Staff buy in and accountability / signage
  / team meetings

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Water

• Meter and measure water volumes, check your bill
  is correct
• Reduce hose dimensions / attach guns to hoses,
• for example a hose left running all night wastes
  the following
• 1 hose 60lpm x 12hrs 43,200L
• ¾ hose 40lpm x 12hrs 28,800L
• ½ hose 25lpm x 12hrs 18,800L
• The operatives complained about reduced water
  pressure and increased wash down time. We stated
  to operatives that this was our new policy and it
  will take longer
• Reduce rinse cycles for CIP system (was there any
  subsequent impact on hygiene results)
• Staff awareness - turn off taps / never leave
  hoses running / attach guns to hoses at all times
  /signage / team meetings

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Electricity

• Measure where the electricity is going
• Explore market tariffs are we on the right
  tariff/CCL rebates
• Staff training turn off lights, installation of
  PIR sensors for offices and factory, and make
  people responsible for checking
• Power factor correction
• Refrigeration update to inverter pack system
• Inverters for motors over 2.2kw
• Change lighting to energy efficient were
  practical we have adopted a change as they
  blow policy (50 less lighting required, 100w
  now 50w)

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Electricity
Example Outside security lights 22 x 400w x
10hours 4818 per annum Change to 125w led 22 x
125w x 10hours 1505 Saving 276 per
month PAYBACK 30 months
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Electricity

• We decided this year to install solar panels
• Amber Green solar were chosen for the
  installation
• We chose to start with a 12KW system to lock us
  into the
• ROCs with a view to increasing to 50KW system
  in the
• new financial year .
• We also secured an interest free loan from the
  carbon trust
• Payback is 4 years
• Eventual savings of 11 per annum of our total
  electricity costs

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Dry Waste

• How do we separate our waste which is currently
  going to compactor/landfill?
• Cardboard 11.5 tonne per annum
• Plastic 3 tonne p.a.
• Metal 1 tonne p.a.
• The benefit from separating this waste is that we
  now have an income from
• this waste stream, we have diverted 15.5 tonnes
  per annum from landfill.
• A cost of 2,500 per year to the business is now
  cost neutral

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Wet Waste / Effluent

• Meter the WWTP and assess overall volume
• What can we take out at source start up and
  final production 300-500lpw - this is recycled
  by a 3rd party for bio-diesel
• We contacted a local company who were setting up
  an Anaerobic Digester. They agreed to take away
  our wet waste for a nominal fee this has saved
  the company 7,000 this year and the waste
  product no longer has to be further processed
  before going to landfill (approx 129 tonnes per
  annum)
• Aim / Target cost neutral

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Wet Waste / Effluent
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How Stem Continue to Add Value

• We have benefited from their experience and
  networking forums which has allowed us to explore
  other revenue streams
• Networking we were introduced to Parwork
  Solutions, Amber Green Solar and NCH waste water
  who we have done business with

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How Stem Continue to Add Value

• Gerard Enright -(Stem project officer) guided us
  through our accreditation and reminded us to
  include the small things we had implemented eg
• Reps cars Blue motion vehicles with a tax and
  fuel benefit to company and employee
• Pallets purchase of recycled pallets and
  agreement to exchange damaged pallets
• Sustainable suppliers
• Electricity - of wind to replace fossil fuels
• Packaging transfer of business to local
  supplier to reduce carbon footprint
• CCL rebate on energy bills