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Best practices
Packaging protects and preserves products and ensures that they arrive in perfect condition. But producing packaging also consumes resources and disposing of it results in a large amount of waste
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Re-used ... re-loved
Office equipment and furniture finds a new home or new purpose if not thrown away
Community centres and schools can make use of the equipment
Valuable materials contained
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Every office generates waste such as paper, cardboard, packaging, bottles, disposable plates, cups, cutleries, towels, food waster, etc. A 'wasteful' company typically has higher material and waste
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Remanufacturing is the rebuilding, repairing or restoring of an end-of-life product or part to return it to like-new condition. Remanufactured products or parts should be backed by the same or similar
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Look below the surface for savings
Operating costs can be reduced in obvious and less obvious ways
The key is to know where to look
A US company producing surfactant was looking at ways to
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Surprising gains from small changes
Steel mill makes a small adjustment to a key process and saves around €1 million annually
Adding insulation to its steel-making ladles saves a further € 635
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Changes and improvements to production infrastructure can significantly reduce raw materials used, and related costs of storage, as well as boost manufacturing efficiency.
According to McKinsey
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Matches made in... Turntoo
Clever sales models are reshaping the producer-consumer relationship with energy and resource benefits
Intermediaries can design match-ups that yield good results for
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See-through, long-term business relationships
Functional business model values long-term relationships over one-off sales
Materials in old windows are retrieved and re-used as part of the scheme
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Good insulation of exterior walls, floors, ceilings/roofs, windows, and exterior doors can reduce your new building’s energy demand (both cooling and heating) by some 35 %.
Thermal insulation can
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As the name suggests, functional sales business models focus on adapting the function and benefits of a product or service to customer needs instead of emphasising the physical product per se. In such
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Recycling waste energy just made sense…
A metalwork plant built its own heat capping and recycling solution
A simple, clever system to channel waste heat in- or outside the plant depending on