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Conclusion

The team achieved the objectives for this project. The As in terms of the water saved for a year, it could reach
partner SME Company managed to fine-tune its daily 600,000 m . (Assuming that all the Food & Beverage
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operation to reduce its impact on climate change. This outlets to be achieving the same amount of saving
project also helped the SME reduce its operating cost by per year with ITEA Café as the profile of each outlet
cutting down on utility consumption and enhancing its varies). The amount of saving in terms of CO equivalent
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branding through being socially responsible. Thus, the emissions for water can be as much as 198 tonnes of
project created a win-win situation for both business CO .
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and the environment.
Ronald Wright, a Canadian author, said, “If civilisation is
Based on a statistical finding on the amount of Food & to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital,
Beverage outlets operating in Singapore in 2018, it was of nature”.
estimated that there was a total of 12,000, excluding
food caterers (5). Therefore, if we implement this Therefore, in conclusion, businesses must not only
project island-wide for a year, the amount of saving, in be built to succeed but fundamentally be based on
terms of CO equivalent emissions for electricity, can be reducing their carbon footprint on our environment.
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as much as 25,000 tonnes of CO . (Assuming that all the This is because Mother Earth is the only thing that we
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Food & Beverage outlets be achieving the same amount all have in common.
of saving per year with ITEA Café as the profile of each
outlet varies)

References

1. https://www.sgpbusiness.com/company/Itea-Cafe-Pte-Ltd

2. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03207579.pdf

3. https://www.ema.gov.sg/Singapore-Energy-Statistics-2019/Ch02/index2

4. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/week-numbers.ht ml

5. https://www.statista.com/statistics/724783/number-of-food-outlets-in-singapore-by-establishment-type/

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