Firstly

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Firstly

• Congratulations to the Plymouth Manufacturing REC!

For UK manufacturing as a whole - waste costs
c30 billion/year Imagine the impact a slice of
this will make to Plymouth companies?
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ENVIROWISE Working in partnership across the
region

• Eric Banks
• Envirowise Advisor
• South West Region

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Presentation overview

• What is Envirowise?
• On-site Services
• Other services

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What is Envirowise?

• UK-wide Government-funded programme
• Led by industry
• Co-ordinated by DEFRA
• programme value 14M
• Primarily funded by the Business Resource
  Efficiency Waste (BREW) programme

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What does Envirowise do?

• Provide businesses with a range of environmental
  services
• Aim - to improve competitiveness and productivity
• These services are FREE
• These services are CONFIDENTIAL
• These services CARRY NO OBLIGATIONS

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Envirowise Delivery

• A range of tailored advice to suit a business
  needs via
• Telephone
• Website
• Site Visits

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Envirowise Delivery

• Focus Get business to minimise waste and use
  resources efficiently
• Some businesses lose 4 of turnover on waste
• Potential savings can be up to 1000 per employee
  per business

Savings identified since 1994 - in excess of 1.3
Billion
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Why think about waste - when skips are cheap!
Easily Identified Costs
Hidden Costs
True cost of waste is 10 20 times the cost of
disposal
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Key Services

• Free site visits
• Seminars, workshops campaigns
• Free publications
• Environment and Energy helpline
• 0800 585794 / www.envirowise.gov.uk

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Envirowise Site visits - 1

• Fast Track Visits
• - Provide 8 hours free consultancy
• - Help to identify avoidable waste
• - Provide a list of cost saving opportunities
• - Identify quick, low-cost savings actions

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Envirowise Site visits - 2

• Design Track Visits
• - Savings through Smart Design
• - Whole life cycle analysis from
  manufacture to end of use
• - Includes Packaging

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Envirowise Site visits - 3

• Counselling Visits
• - 4-hours
• - Can be arranged on any issue, e.g.
  Hazardous Waste , Effluent , WEEE, Packaging,
  etc.
• - Report provided

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Seminars / Workshops Campaigns

• Envirowise host 200 events a year in UK
• Update registration via the website -
  www.envirowise.gov.uk
• Campaigns - On sectors and issues of high
  importance, e.g. Water Saving
• Nationally and regionally
• Resource Efficiency Clubs (RECs)

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Free publications and guides

• Over 450 publications available via
• - post
• - email (PDF file)
• - CD-Rom
• Best Practice guides for industrial sectors
• Guides and tools for intermediaries and business
  support organisations

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Environment Energy Helpline

• 0800 585794
• Call with any environmental query
• - response from technical experts.
• Or for further information look at the website -
  www.envirowise.gov.uk

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Examples of Success

• Burt's Chips, Devon
• Fast Track identified waste issues
• 22,000 saved in flavourings
• 25,000 potential with better process

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• So good luck to the Plymouth Manufacturing REC !
• Were here to support you.
• Contact
• Paul Gilbert
• Regional Manager SW
• 0870 1903832
• paul.gilbert_at_envirowise.gov.uk