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104 Mayor of London Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy marketplace by taking delegates through a three-day programme delivered by successful entrepreneurs and environmentalists. Source: Enviro Entrepreneur School Case study 43 - Redesign to improve material productivity significantly reduces costs To maintain its competitive advantage and prepare for legislation for mandatory product take back, Varian Medical Systems UK Ltd applied sustainable design techniques to the redesign of part of its radiotherapy simulator with support from Envirowise. The first key output was a checklist of general design guidelines developed by the design team. The checklist will prompt designers to challenge existing practices and assumptions by posing questions intended to minimise the use of toxic materials, reduce part numbers and raw material use, and make disassembly and reuse easier. The £162,000 per year saving in parts costs represents a 14 per cent reduction in annual costs. Source: Envirowise: NC201 Case study 44 - Market advantage as a result of resource focused redesign Fulleon Ltd designs and manufactures elements for fire alarm systems. To maintain its position in a highly competitive market, Fulleon is committed to continual improvement to reduce manufacturing costs and to enhance the functionality of its products. Applying an holistic approach to the redesign of its break-glass call point product allowed Fulleon to achieve significant cost and environmental benefits, such as: ■ a 35 per cent reduction in the number of components making up the product ■ a 27 per cent reduction in weight of plastic used ■ a 24 per cent reduction in packaging costs. The average cost of materials to manufacture the call point has fallen by 11 per cent and the average labour cost to assemble the call point by 34 per cent. The average overall unit cost has therefore fallen by 21 per cent. Based on the total combined sales for the old and new designs over 12 months, the saving in manufacturing costs amounted to £92,650 per year and enabled Fulleon to steal a considerable market lead over its competitors. Source: Envirowise: CS326
Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 105 Legislating design 5.8 Packaging legislation 233 requires that: ■ packaging volume and weight are the minimum amount to maintain necessary levels of safety, hygiene and acceptance for the packed product and for the consumer ■ packaging is suitable for material recycling, energy recovery or composting, or for reuse (if reuse is intended) ■ hazardous constituents of packaging have minimum impact on the environment at the end of their life. 5.9 Local authority Trading Standards departments enforce the regulations. They can make test purchases, request compliance documentation and ultimately prohibit the supply of packaging, which is considered to breach the regulations. 5.10 The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and End-of-Life Vehicles Directives also provide a clear incentive to design goods in a way which reduces waste and maximises reuse and recycling. 5.11 Proper application of the directives should ensure businesses undertake an assessment of their product’s environmental impact and make changes to its design to reduce that impact. However, the government admits that producer responsibility directives have ‘not sufficiently targeted waste reduction‘ 234 or reduced the environmental impacts of products through their life cycle. 5.12 Envirowise, through its product and packaging design work, promotes ‘life cycle thinking’, an approach it uses to reduce environmental impacts as well as costs for businesses. Life cycle thinking does not require a full life cycle assessment of a product, but does require key stakeholders to be involved in openly discussing a product or packaging and thinking about its design, taking into account its environmental impact across its entire existence; covering materials (both extraction and processing), manufacture, retail, use and end-of-life. Taking responsibility 5.13 Taking a proactive approach to prevent waste and making products and packaging recyclable can reduce the costs of complying with producer responsibility legislation and is therefore a key opportunity for obligated businesses. The government is working with the retail sector on waste issues primarily through the Courtauld Commitment, whose signatories, all major retailers and suppliers, have pledged to:
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