Cleaner technology
Where could you reduce waste?
Cleaner technology need not be an expensive process. Envirowise can help you reduce your waste and save money, by providing guidance on options that you could implement in your company. These four routes are:
- Cleaner design Minimising the environmental impact over the entire lifetime of a product or service through design can improve competitiveness substantially.
- Optimising the process Optimising processes usually involves changing the process flow and/or improving process control depending on your company’s requirements.
- New technology Using new technology can involve changing to a cleaner process in place of more environmentally harmful ones, installing cleaner equipment, or doing both.
- Recovering and reusing Many processes generate waste streams containing a mixture of materials. Where prevention or reduction is not possible many businesses benefit from recovering and re-using the raw materials and by-products.
Making the change
The next step is to evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of a particular cleaner technology opportunity, by:
- Assessing the available technical approaches
- Undertaking a cost-benefit analysis of your list of possible solutions
- Obtaining management approval to trial your chosen approach
- Undertaking a trial
- Implementing your chosen approach and continuing to monitor performance.
