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Create Awareness. Changing the culture Making use of keen staff members Using internal media effectively External campaigns. Create Awareness. Packaging awareness day in Bristol. Designing out packaging - solid products Working up the supply chain
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Create Awareness • Changing the culture • Making use of keen staff members • Using internal media effectively • External campaigns
Create Awareness Packaging awareness day in Bristol.
Designing out packaging - solid products • Working up the supply chain • Adopting returnable/re-usable transit packaging • Encouraging customers to re-use packaging • Japan saving £30,000 Eliminate Waste
Reduce Resources • Sustainable Procurement • Moving away from non-renewable materials • Using lighter packaging • Searching for innovative solutions • Popcorn • Easy Pack • Innovia films
Re-use Creatively • Looking at the waste stream for opportunities • Calculating financial benefits • Inspiring people to change • cardboard perforator • shredded paper • goods in packaging • Moulds and trays
Re-use Creatively • *Using Internet resources: • www.nisp.org.uk - National Industrial Symbiosis Programme • http://www.wastechange.net/pak/ - Materials and waste exchange • www.myskip.com - Re-use and free exchange of materials • http://uk.freecycle.com - local email group for free exchange • http://www.wasteexchange.net/ - online materials listings
Segregating at source = £££ and free collections • Co-mingled recycling as an easy solution • Updating waste contracts regularly • Encouraging the local recycling market • Back-hauling scheme • Helping customers • to recycle Recycle Pro-actively 110 tonnes of cardboard 12 tonnes of plastic
Buying recycled • Waste Neutral concept • 95% of store packaging willbe made of recycled materials • Finding opportunities to close the loop • Bio-fuels made of chip fat • Favour post-consumer waste Close the Loop
Avoid Landfill • Organic waste collection • Changing waste into fuels • LUSH: from 11 tonnesonce a week to 11 tonnesonce every 5 weeks.
Share Experience • Sharing solutions (forums, meetings) • Using web resources • Promoting local businesses • The people who help us: • Plastics: www.assoc-polymer-resources.co.uk • Organic: Karbie Recycling 01202 892910 • Card and paper: www.martockwastepaper.com • Save-a-cup: www.save-a-cup.co.uk • Purbeck and Wareham Skip Hire 01202 620 077
Ruth Andrade www.lush.co.uk savetheplanet@lush.co.uk
2 million plastic bottles, number used in the UK in 2 hrs, in the US in 5 minutes.
Create awareness Training Campaigns Community involvement Inspiration FIND YOUR COUNTRY’S GREEN HELPER!
GO BACK AND… Increase recycling, buy recycled. Manage your energy. Switch to green. Monitor transport. Cut down flights. Get help, loans and grants Change habits Do something now, tomorrow and as soon as you’re back.
Recycling area at Windsor shop: Clear bags fit perfectly inside blue roll boxes!
www.nisp.org.uk - National Industrial Symbiosis Programme • http://www.wastechange.net/pak/ - Materials and waste exchange • www.myskip.com - Re-use and free exchange of materials • http://uk.freecycle.com - local free exchange • http://www.wasteexchange.net/ - online materials listings