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Overcoming Challenges
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Creating Benefits for your Business
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‣ > 25 years Environmental Management experience
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‣ Many business sectors Ireland, UK and mainland Europe
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‣ Optimise Products, Processes and People
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‣ Achieve financial, competitive and operational goals
through enhanced environmental performance
Who we are and what we do
!‣ Legal - What is the law - What are your liabilities
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‣ Financial - Capital & Operational Costs - ROI
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‣ Technical - Can you implement it or Can it be done
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‣ Resource - In-house or bought in expertise
Challenges
Overcome the Challenge
‣ Why ‣ What
‣ When ‣ Where
‣ Who ‣ How
!‣ Financial Savings & Competitive Advantage
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‣ Legal Compliance & Public Perception
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‣ Social Enterprise & Corporate Social Responsibility
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‣ Lifestyle Choice & Altruism
Whats in it for You
‣ Define - What is your objective and the challenge
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‣ Measure - KPI and influencing factors
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‣ Assess - Look at the data
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‣ Implement - Actions to address identified challenges
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‣ Control - Objective Vs KPI
Overcome the challenge
‣ Do your homework - Have a Strategy and review it
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‣ Fail Early - before you invest too much
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‣ Move on to the Next Opportunity
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When you Don’t Win You L____
Overcome the Challenge
Opportunities: Are there any?
‣ Manufacturing ‣ Services
‣ Social Enterprise ‣ Public Sector
Opportunities: Where are they?
‣ Supply Chain ‣ Water
‣ Waste ‣ Energy
‣ New Products ‣ Resource Recovery
Precision Engineering
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‣ 30 Year Established Business, 45 employees
‣ New Licence & Treatment Facility Required
‣ Modification to Washing Mechanism (Proof of concept to full
implementation)
‣ >90% savings on Water achieved
‣ No Treatment Facility Required - Saving €100,000
‣ Operational Cost Annual Saving €25,000
Case Study 1: Legal Compliance & Substantial Cost Saving
Working Sand & Gravel Quarry
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‣ WFP to import up to 100,000 tonnes soil & stone
‣ Plan to redevelop the site for local amenity
‣ Rehabilitate the land scar requires > 1000,000 tonnes
‣ EPA Licence Required
‣ Poor gate fees do not compensate for License application
and management costs
‣ Review subject to Market Demand & Legislation
Case Study 2: One that did not work
Construction & Demolition Waste Reuse
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‣ Significant Legal & Technical Obstacles
‣ Due diligence & assessment over 12 month period
- Technical, Legal, Logistics, Supply Chain, Financial
‣ Proof of concept & Process Proving
‣ Commercial supply and demand established
‣ Return on Investment 6 months
‣ Substantial profitability (Commercially sensitive)
Case Study 3: One that did work
Ceramics Producer
‣ Packaging requirements
- Lack of supply of suitable containers
- High cost of packaging & logistics
‣ Specialist Manufacturing Company: Has suitable containers
‣ Waste Management Regulations and permit requirements
‣ Logistics & Commercial concerns addressed
‣ Packaging cost saving to end user
‣ Waste disposal costs and storage capacity savings for supplier
Win:Win
Case Study 4: Small Scale Works too
‣ Glass - Reuse Applications
‣ C&D waste - Recycled as Aggregates
‣ Hard Plastics - Recovery & Reuse
‣ Plastic Packaging - RDF but other opportunities exist
‣ Tyres - Watch this space
‣ Wood Product - Reprocessing/Reuse
‣ Textiles - Commercial and Social Enterprise
‣ Furniture - Commercial and Social Enterprise
Other opportunities
Opportunities: Where are they in Your business
‣ Supply Chain ‣ Water
‣ Waste ‣ Energy
‣ New Products ‣ Resource Recovery
