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Minimising the supply chain

Reduction:
Active measures can be taken to reduce the
amount of waste you produce and to identify
areas where waste levels can be improved. Waste
reduction strategies look into your supply chain
to identify production and packaging materials
that you will ultimately need to dispose of.

Reuse:
Identifying opportunities in alternative
reusable resources, rather than disposing of
them unnecessarily, is another way of reducing
the amount of waste you produce. Your waste
management partner should also be able to
help you identify ways in which you can utilise
valuable material directly back into your supply
chain, reducing waste and increasing efficiency.
This ensures that your business pro-actively Recovery:
supports the circular economy. Think about Any waste that cannot be recycled could still be
what you throw away that could be reused. effectively utilised through an Energy Recovery
Facility (ERF).
Recycling:
Be committed to recycling as much of your ERFs offer a pro-active approach to diverting
waste as possible. waste from landfill. By incinerating waste to
create heat and steam, ERFs efficiently generate
Composition levels can be vastly improved by electricity and heating, providing renewable
working to increase knowledge about waste energy for local homes and other facilities.
segregation. The better the composition and
higher the quality of your recyclate streams, the Disposal:
more material can be sent onwards for processing In the rare cases where waste cannot be treated
into new products. Educating employees about further up the Waste Hierarchy, it should be safely
waste segregation is key. and responsibly transferred to landfill.