Envirowise Good Practice Guide - The Key to Reducing Waste Costs

Achieving cost savings and other benefits from adopting a systematic waste minimisation programme depends on regular measurement and analysis of the resources (raw materials, energy, water, packaging, etc) used by your company and the wastes it produces. This Good Practice Guide explains how a measuring to manage programme can help your company save money by improving the management of its processes to become more resource efficient. Measuring to manage can also help your company to improve its environmental performance and to identify opportunities to increase throughput without the need for major investment.

Taking regular measurements and analysing data will help you to:

The Guide, which is applicable to companies of all sizes and from all sectors of industry, describes:

Ten industry examples illustrate the cost savings and other benefits that can be achieved by companies of all sizes and types by adopting a