Nature Replicated in Business
Environmental Solutions
Our range of Solutions are all based on the Environment Agency's recommendation of the "Hierarchy of Recycling" issues which basically places in order of preference the actions to solving a wasteful practice or output.
REDUCE
RE-USE
RECYCLE
DISPOSE
Therefore when putting any business/production practice under scrutiny a solution will present itself under one of these headings:
REDUCE
Environmental Management System (EMS): Design & Installation.
Business Systems: Improve efficiency, reduce resource wastage.
Quality Systems: Improve product quality, reduce reject/scrap.
Business Resource Management: Improve resource/material use, reduce costs.
Environmental Money-Saving Products: Reduce your dependence on the resources you are consuming and save money too!
Waste Minimisation: Improve specific wasteful practice, reduce costs.
Alternative materials/practices: Change completely to more eco-friendly materials/practices.
Environmental Plant: Reduce the impact your outputs (emissions/discharges) have on the environment.
RE-USE
Materials re-use: Reduce costs.
Waste materials re-use: Finding new ways of utilising waste materials, new products from old.
Combined heat & power systems: waste to energy systems, get cheap/free energy from your waste.
RECYCLE
Material Waste output: Reduce disposal costs.
Scrap: Back into process, reduce costs.
Recycling Register: One man's waste could be another man's raw material.
Recycling Plant: Bespoke design and set-up of purpose built recycling factory.
DISPOSE
Environmental Plant:
Incineration: Waste to energy systems.
Balers/Compactors: Reduce the cost of disposal.
Landfill: Your last option! (But all to often it is the first or only consideration!)
Plant and Equipment :
Publications :
Consultancy and Services
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