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Plastics and rubber

The UK plastics sector has a turnover of around £19 billion and employs over 150,000 people. It is a large and growing industry, yet many companies find the pressures of competing extremely difficult.

Why?

  • Raw material prices fluctuate wildly
  • Energy prices are rising
  • 'Non-green' sector image
  • New legislation encouraging greater recycling and reuse, particularly ELV, WEEE and packaging regulations

Tackling waste with recycling is one strategy, however even the most efficient and effective recycling processes will incur costs and use up valuable resources and raw materials.

Envirowise offers an alternative

Envirowise offers an alternative strategy which will help you to:

  • Increase competitiveness
  • Increase resource efficiency
  • Improve environmental performance and 'green image'
  • And most importantly cut costs

How?

By targeting waste at source through waste minimisation and cleaner design techniques, your organisation will be able to vastly reduce the need for recycling and disposing of waste.

Waste minimisation allows your organisation to comply with legislation, improve environmental performance and cut costs for recycling wasted raw material.

Additional info...

Key publications

CS326 Product Redesign Cuts Materials and Costs


GG377 Resource efficiency: cut costs in plastics processing


Key issues affecting your sector

Cleaner design


Waste minimisation


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