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Making waste work in London The Mayor’s Draft Business Waste Management Strategy Mayor of London 93
4.59 The London Manufacturing Advisory Service, funded by the LDA and
delivered by manufacturers provides practical hands-on support to help
businesses become more competitive. London is home to 16,000 small
and medium sized manufacturers 209 , therefore, the service could have an
enormous impact on waste prevention but this has not been the focus
to date.
Case study 33 - Taking action after waste audit delivers
cost savings
The introduction of a system to ensure accurate waste reporting has
allowed Kappa Packaging to progressively reduce its process waste.
Kappa has used the waste data to identify and control the main sources
of process waste. A detailed study of the machines found that the two
main problems were poor glue application and machine jams. New gluing
systems have virtually eliminated the glue problem, while a new brush
system (for removing tabs) and new sensors have reduced the amount of
waste generated as a result of machine jams. Following the introduction
of the waste reporting system and initiatives to reduce waste, the overall
figure for process waste fell progressively from the base-line figure of
14.6 per cent to 13.1 per cent by the end of 2002. The annual cost
savings of over £199,000 achieved by the end of 2002 equated to over
£1,000 per employee.
Source: Envirowise: CS406
4.60 The National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP), launched in April
2005, aims to identify wastes within one business that can be reused as
a feedstock by another business so that previously unwanted or low value
wastes or by-products become useful and competitively priced resources
for others. NISP has helped to divert more than 1.1 million tonnes of
waste from landfill and prevented the use of 1.9 million tonnes of virgin
materials leading to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of over 1.3
million tonnes 210 . The programme has led to £34 million of private capital
investment in reprocessing and recycling technologies, created 356 new
jobs and generated £39 million in additional sales for its members.
4.61 NISP, through the LDA, promotes industrial symbiosis in London. Since
its launch in September 2005, the programme has helped its 507 London
members to divert nearly 300,000 tonnes from landfill, and prevented the
use of nearly 200,000 tonnes of raw material leading to a reduction in
carbon emissions of nearly 80,000 tonnes.