GAINING SAVINGS THROUGH RESOURCE EFFICIENCY Jenni Donato [email protected].

GAINING SAVINGS THROUGH RESOURCE EFFICIENCY

Jenni [email protected]

Who are WRAP ?

WRAP helps individuals, businesses and local authorities to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change.

OUR THREE TARGETS FOR 2008-2011

Target 18 million tonnes less waste to landfill.Target 25 million tonnes of CO2 emissions saved.

Target 3£1.1 billion of economic benefits.

Resource Efficiency – what is it?

• It’s about using raw materials (the inputs) as efficiently as possible in the delivery of “the service” (the output)

• A systematic review of service delivery

• Good business sense – increasing profitability

Eco-design – what is it?

Life cycle of the product, service or packaging

Looking from an intelligent design perspective

Reduces the biggest environmental impact

Looking at amounts, types and mixtures of materials

Identifies financial as well as environmental opportunities

The role of design – why do it?

• 80% of the cost of product set at the design stage• 93% of production materials not used in the final product (becomes waste ??)• 80% of products discarded after a single use (waste)• Design decisions will affect the whole lifecycle from the manufacture and use to the disposal

Core Drivers

EnvironmentalClimate change and carbon

Oil

Materials

Water

Waste

Financial

Legal

Federal Highways Administration www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/climate/gccalbany

Environmental – Climate change

Energy Information Agency www.eia.doe.gov

Peak Oil

Water as a Resource

Despite recent flooding, clean and safe water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.

This is primarily due to two main causes:

Increasing demand and supply pressuresChanging climate and the increased variability of rainfall patterns.

The South East of England has less water available per person than the

Sudan or Syria

(Waterwise - June 2008)

You pay for the water you useYou also pay for disposing it

This tap is wasting 1 litre per minute

Cost of supply and disposal from this single tap = £1,000 per year

Financial

HIDDENCOSTS

VISIBLE COSTS

Disposal costs: Effluent, Skips, Landfill charges, Air pollution charges

Energy use

Utility use

Raw materials

Labour

Handling & storage

Transportation

The true cost of waste = 4% of turnover

Maintenance

Time

Effort

Production capacity

Rework

Lost profit

Legal

PackagingUK Packaging Waste Regulations

Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations

ProductEuP, Batteries and Accumulators, WEEE, RoHS

Service…

A number of approaches to reducing costs & carbon through eco-designNo real agreement on which is best.Depends on the service, product, its packaging, the user, fill method, shipping method, storage method, company identity and strategy

Design for what? What’s the focus?

....Recyclability………………………….….Minimisation……….……..……..……..…Transport Efficiency………………………..Longevity……………….…………….Compostability……………………..Reuse…………………..…….….Embodied Carbon……..………Modularity…….……Short-life…….....

Tools and techniques

Packaging Design Strategies

Design for recyclability

Focus on segregation

Simple materials

Links to infrastructure in country of choice

Design for recycled content

Increasing the level of recycled content in a pack

Aluminum – 95% less energy usePET – RPET – saving of 1.5 to 2 tonnes CO2e per tonneCard – can put up weight by 25%

Design for Concentration

Why ship water around the world when it is available at point of use?

Means– smaller packages– fewer deliveries– need less storage space– can be applied to tablets / powders with fillers

Design for degradabilityRise in interest in biodegradable packaging

Consumers like the concept of biodegradability / compostability

But do they really understand it? And are local authorities ready for it?

Plant feedstocks take productive land away from food production

Product Design Strategies

Design for longevityProducts built to last

Modular and upgradeable The service for the product built into it’s initial cost

Design for end of lifeQuicksilver – clothes made from recycled fibres, customers can then send them back to be recycled again.

End of Life Vehicles Directive

Design for material efficiencyDesigning out unnecessary material or features from products

Designing products to use less materials in the use phase

2 cups of water and 1 cup of plastic beads

How does this relate to the Service Industry ???

Equipment provision for surgeons

Historically• manually choose what equipment they would use for an

operation

• individually unwrap them

• use what they need

• throw away

Now• pack of equipment

• saves material, packaging and energy from bulk sterilisation

• saves over a third on preparation time

Design for material efficiency

‘It’s a sophisticated multi-channel offer where the design shifts the stores

from a functional retail offer to become more of a social space,’

Gennaro Castaldo, head of press and public relations for HMV UK

and Ireland

No paper statements

Fewer letters to open

No cheque book or paying-in book

No paper-based marketing

Design for what ??

The hidden footprint…

Internet search (between 0.2g to 7g CO2)Taking the lowerGoogle - 304 million searches per day = 60 tonnes of CO2 per day !!

Streaming 0.2g per second, 30 min show = 360g CO2BBC iPlayer – 7 million requests per day = 252 tonnes of CO2 per day !!

Second Life Avatar1,752 KWh or 489 Kg of CO2 per yearThis is the same as an average Brazilian citizen !!

Figures by eco3 www.eco3.co.uk

Get some help !!!

Rethink Waste - A simple structured approach to help manufacturers to:

• understand how much waste their company produces;• identify simple ways to start reducing waste and saving money;• measure the resource and cost savings that they have made.

Over 3 months, 3 online modules will be delivered covering data collection; developing an action plan; implementing action plans and measuring savings.

www.wrap.org.uk/rethink

Join Rethink WasteResource efficiency for manufacturers

www.wrap.org.uk/rethink

The Rippleffect - A simple structured approach to help businesses to:

• understand how much water their company uses;• identify simple ways to start saving water and money;• measure the water and cost savings that they have made.

Over 6 months, 3 online modules will be delivered covering data collection; developing an action plan; implementing action plans and measuring savings.

www.wrap.org.uk/rippleffect

Join the RippleffectWater efficiency for businesses

www.wrap.org.uk/rippleffect

Summary

Think about the life cycle of your product, service or its packaging

Consider which environmental impacts are likely to be the biggest

Make some positive design changes which help to minimise these environmental impacts

WorkshopLook at the products and packaging in front of you

• What is good packaging? Why• What is bad packaging? Why

Using what you have just learnt about eco-design, consider a new way to packaging the product

REMEMBER – THINK ABOUT THE BIGGER PICTURE !!!

Simple Fact...... The future of lighting

1) Lighting Buckingham Palace takes the same energy as ..................!?!

Simple Fact...... The future of lighting

2) If we took the €2.4bn (spent in Germany on solar power) and spent it on retrofit LED’s, what would the energy savings be?

Simple Fact...... The future of lighting

3) If we replaced all lighting products (Europe) with the LED’s (BAT) what would the result be? (% saving, forest area, barrels of oil, CO2)

Simple Fact...... The future of lighting

4) One retailer moved to an all LED supermarket... What was the total energy saving?

Simple Fact...... The future of lighting

5) Rafayel Hotel, London. Move to all LED in the building. The ‘cost’ to stay there was 70kg/CO2/night. What is it now?

Now is the time to act.

Everyone can play a part in lightening the UK’s carbon footprint.

Call: freephone 0808 100 2040Visit: www.wrap.org.uk