Resource Efficiency & Waste Minimisation

Trevor Knipe International Synergies Ltd

TAKE – MAKE - WASTE

•  We still throw away 60% of everything we use.

•  It takes 10t of material to make 1t of product.

•  80% products discarded after single use.

•  It takes 1300litres of water to produce 1Kg of

wheat.

•  The true cost of waste = 4% of turnover.

•  Revised Waste Strategy.

•  Resource depletion e.g. Copper, Lead,

Transition Metals

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

What is Resource Efficiency? •  It is about sustainable management and use of resources throughout their life cycle - from extraction, transport, transformation, consumption to the disposal of waste.

•  It means producing more value with less material and consuming differently, to limit the risks linked with scarcity and for less environmental impacts, within our planet’s natural limits.

•  Resources include all material and natural resources, from food, timber, and biodiversity in the widest sense, to energy,

metals, soil, water, minerals, our atmosphere and land.

Resource  efficiency  advances  sustainability  in  the  industrial  system  

Linear  system  Products  

Natural  resources  

Waste  

Move  toward  Circular  system  

Natural  resources  

Products  

Products  

Waste    

To  

resource  

Natural  resources  

WASTE

What is Waste?

•  “any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.”

FISCAL MEASURES

•  Landfill Tax –  Now £64/tonne –  Are you paying landfill tax on waste that is being recycled?

•  Packaging Recovery Notes (PRNs) –  If you use packaging are you registered? –  If you recycle packaging could you sell PRNs

•  Water & Sewerage Charges –  Are you being charged too much?

•  Waste Disposal Charges –  Are you using the correct EWC code? –  Are you being charged twice?

•  Rebates –  Are you being properly paid for recyclable waste?

TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES

•  Techniques –  Internal audits – Waste mapping – Green teams – Environmental

Management Systems – Measuring and

Monitoring – Key Performance

Indicators

•  Technologies – Clean technologies – Energy reduction – Recirculation systems – Solvent substitution – Segregation – Preparation for

recycling

RETHINK AND REDESIGN (PREVENTION)

• Hardest place to start • Most costly • Most beneficial • We’ve always done it this way •  Should always be on the agenda at Board

level • Circular Economy

REDUCE / MINIMISE

•  Solid waste – Skips – Bins – Stores – Dispatch – Offices – Canteens – Garages

•  Liquid waste –  Taps/ hoses – Process plant – Coolers –  Tanks and bunds –  Toilets & Canteens – Vehicle washes – Drains – Effluent treatment plant – Chemical stores –  Leaks

•  Air Emissions – Chimneys – Vents – Dust – Smells

•  Noise

COMMITMENT

• Courtauld Commitment –  Sustainable use of resources throughout the retail supply chain

• Halving Waste to Landfill –  Reducing waste from construction –  Site waste management plans

•  Zero Waste –  Yes, ZERO WASTE

• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) –  Taking social and environmental responsibility seriously

•  Moved from 64% landfill diversion to 98%

• Talc • MetFab • Carbon Black

MONITORING AND TARGETING

“If you don’t measure it you can’t manage it!” •  Sources of information

– Duty of Care notes – Weighbridge dockets – Number of skips/ bins/ bags – Bales of waste – Meter readings – Bucket & stopwatch – Number of tankers – ASK YOUR PEOPLE!

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPI)

Reference wasted resources to units of production.

•  Examples of KPIs – Tonnes of waste per tonne of production – % of product produced but not sold – % of product returned from customer – Tonnes of raw material per tonne of production – Volume/ cost of water per tonne of product

REUSE

•  Pallets •  Packaging •  Production waste • Rainwater harvesting • Grey water reuse in toilets

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WASTE – FLIPCHART EXERCISE

1. What is it? 2. Could it be reduced? 3. Could it be reused? 4. Could it be recycled? 5. And the answer is?

Astro Turf

•  End of life Astro Turf •  Soil protection •  Dock sides •  Golf tee boxes

Astro Turf – Green Car!

Gully Waste

•  Road sweepings/ gully waste washed and screened

•  Artificial topsoil •  Aggregates •  Recycled packaging

Window Profile

•  Chop and shred to recover uPVC and metals

•  Granulate uPVC and re-extrude as new profiles

•  Recycle aluminium as engine blocks

•  Recycle steel as recycling machinery

Conveyor Belt

•  Shred to a range of sizes •  Cow comfort products •  Play and sports surfaces •  Cement kiln fuel

Hot Air

•  Insulate!

•  Heat a school, swimming pool or hospital

•  Dry biomass

•  Use in refrigeration

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY SUPPORT

Guidance •  European Waste Catalogue (EWC) Codes • Quality Protocols •  End of Waste criteria • www.wrap.org.uk

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY SUPPORT

–  Invest NI •  Resource Efficiency Capital Grant •  Audits •  Technical Consultancy •  EMS Support •  Industrial Symbiosis

– Trade Organisations – Council – Nibusinessinfo.co.uk – NetRegs – Other businesses

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (EMS)

•  ISO 14000 or BS8555 or CSR or Internal System

An EMS should work for you but NOT make work for you

www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk

www.environment-agency.gov.uk/netregs/ legislation/current/63546.aspx