The document provides an outline for a presentation on resource efficiency and waste minimization. It discusses topics like resource depletion from lack of management, the concept of sustainable development, and how an environmental management system uses a plan-do-check-act cycle to control and improve environmental impacts. Case studies are presented showing how companies achieved resource efficiency through actions like recycling programs, reusing materials, proper waste tracking, and complying with waste legislation. The business case for resource efficiency is that it can help secure contracts, as environmental management scores points on procurement questionnaires and is often required by large businesses and government.

1. Resource Efficiency and
Waste Minimisation
Presented by Tamma Carel
Environmental Consultant at The Environmental Academy
Newcastle upon Tyne
8th and 9th April 2013

2. Presentation Outline
Resource Depletion
Sustainable Development
Resource Efficiency
Inputs, Operations and Outputs
Environmental Management Systems
Case Studies and Success Stories

3. Resource Depletion

4. Global Pollution
Using resources in an unmanaged and unplanned manner
causes pollution of air, water and land:

5. • Has been growing since the 1950’s
• 80% of the rubbish is from land
• Weighs 3.5 million tons
• Covers area twice the size of the USA
• 90% of the rubbish is plastic
The Great Pacific Garbage
Patch

6. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

7. Sustainable Development
The Possible Solution to Resource Depletion and its
Environmental Impacts:
‘Development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.’
Bruntland Report
1987

8. http://safege.com/en/innovation/a-department-dedicated-to-research-and-
innovation/innovation-as-a-driver-of-sustainable-development/

9. Resource Efficiency

10. Inputs
• Plant
• Machinery
• Energy
• Oils
• Materials/goods
• Chemicals
• Water

11. Operations
• Site activities
• Manufacturing/processes
• Storage and use of chemicals
• Water treatment
• Transport
• Administration
• Purchasing
• Services

12. Outputs
• Products
• Waste
• Effluent
• Heat
• Pollution (hopefully prevented!)

13. ProductInputs:
Energy
Materials
Water
Operations
Outputs:
Emissions
Fumes
Odours
Dust
Noise
Outputs:
Waste
Effluent
Waste Water
The Link Between Inputs, Operations and
Outputs

14. Business Case for Resource Efficiency

15. Environmental Management Systems
(EMS)
An EMS is a tool to
Control
Improve
Manage
Monitor
Environmental impacts
An EMS is:
Comprehensive
Structured
Planned
Documented

16. Plan Do Check Act (PDCA)
An EMS is structured on
Plan – Do – Check - Act
Setting goals or ‘continual
Improvement’ drives the
cycle
Also known as the PDCA or
Deming Cycle

17. Waste Minimisation and Resource Efficiency

18. Common Areas for Waste Improvements
Waste and Materials Management
Separate waste streams to reduce costs
Don’t over-order materials
Recycle and re-use
Process Control and Management
Make sure that controls are in place to ensure efficient
operation
Ensure machinery is correctly calibrated
Shut down machinery when not in use.
Plan maintenance of equipment in order to reduce the risk of
breakdown and therefore loss of production time.

19. Case Studies
Resource Efficiency and
Waste Minimisation Successes
Achieved by
Environmental Academy Clients through
Environmental Management Systems

20. Waste Audit
Source: ‘Proportion of waste streams by weight (kg) across campus’. 2010 Waste Audit

21. Resource Efficiency
Source materials that are fit to purpose
Partition installation company won a
large contract - 40,000+ boards were
needed for the job.
The rooms had been designed at a
height that was in between the
standard lengths of plasterboard.
The company liaised with the supplier
and arranged for their boards to be
cut to size.
Environmental Improvement:
Saving 15% material per board
= £38,000 savings
+ 20 tonnes GHG Emissions

22. Resource Efficiency
Turney Wylde used to
produce new signage for
each project
They now provide split signs so
that signage can be used for
multiple projects
Environmental Improvement:
Reduction in purchasing costs and material consumption
Reduction in waste costs and carbon emissions

23. Resource Efficiency
Reuse materials
Reuse of
43,000 bricks
Carbon savings
=
21 tonnes CO2e
Implement a recycling
scheme
Environmental Improvement:
•70% Reduction in Waste to
Landfill
•Reduction in carbon emissions
•50 reams of paper saved per
month
Reduce
Send out
electronic
invoices and
remittances

24. Waste Legislation Awareness
Waste Transfer
Notes
Company did not
monitor scrap metal
uplifts and did not
receive waste
transfer notes from
the contractor over
the course of 3 years
Payout of £8,000
Site inspections
Company did not notice
that paint in the skip was
leaking out of a hole in
the bottom of the skip
straight into a surface
water drain
Received a penalty fine
from the Agency for
causing pollution
Site inspections
Fly tipped domestic and
restaurant waste in the
skip, tyres and litter
covering the area
Maintenance
contractor was not
attending area, but had
been paid for 14
months!

25. Business Case for Resource Efficiency

26. The No.1 Reason for Environmental
Management
Securing Contracts
Environmental Improvement:
•60% Retention of clients as a direct result of EMS Implementation using
Academy Services
•Secured business with Laing O’Rourke
•Secured business with the Ministry of Defence
•Secured business with British Gas
Environmental Management
scores PQQ points
EMS is a requirement of
large businesses and local government

27. Any Questions?