Procurement and Supply Chain - Oakdene Hollins

WR1403: Business Waste Prevention Evidence Review
L2m4-3: Procurement & Supply Chain
Table 2: Summary of clean operations evidence
Category Supported Description Outcomes Ref
ID
RTP & Bulk
Packaging
Envirowise
Forum for
the Future
Envirowise
No
No
No
No
No
WRAP
Envirowise
WRAP & CC
Retailer Halfords asked Autoglym (chemicals
supplier) to switch to bulk transit packaging
Constructor Carillion asked ICI (paint supplier) to
switch to bulk transit packaging
Baker Ginsters asked various suppliers to switch to
bulk transit packaging
Food manufacturer Pasta King asked tomato sauce
supplier to switch to bulk transit packaging
Furniture-maker Herman Miller, Inc (USA) asked
moulded-plastic seat vendors to switch to reusable
(and recyclable) packaging
Unidentified retailers asked various food and drink
manufacturers in the East of England to switch to
RTP
Automotive manufacturer Ford (UK) asked various
suppliers to switch to RTP
Book-printer Arcata Graphics (USA) asked various
suppliers to switch to RTP
Skanska asked its lighting contractor to switch to
RTP during construction at Bart’s Hospital, London
Drinks manufacturer Allied Distillers asked
container supplier United Glass to switch to RTP
Burton’s Biscuits asked various suppliers to switch
to RTP and to eliminate some packaging
£30k/yr savings (16)
Waste reduction of 96%
(projected)
30% reduction in cardboard
per tonne of product in 2006
vs. 2003
Savings of 59 t/yr steel;
37 t/yr sauce; £33.1k/yr from
reduced sauce wastage
$200k/yr savings;
27 t/yr packaging saved; 40%
in productivity in transport
and storage
(35)
(36)
(37)
(38;
39)
n/a (24)
Savings of 23 kt/yr
cardboard; £100k/yr
(40)
$200k/yr (39)
Packaging waste ‘virtually
eliminated for that material
category’
(30)
£26.1k/yr savings (41)
£10k/yr savings (identified) (42)
No
No
No
No
No
WRAP
Xerox (USA) asked various suppliers to switch to
RTP
Retailer Boots asked sandwich suppliers to switch
to RTP
Retailer Boots asked bottle suppliers to switch to
RTP
Retailer Debenhams asked various suppliers to
switch to RTP
Retailer Delhaize (Belgium) asked fruit, meat, fish
& vegetable suppliers to switch to RTP or reduced
transit packaging.
Retailer Argos asked suppliers to switch to a
bespoke reusable plastic bag for deliveries of sofas
(N.B. Similar schemes now evidenced for other
retailers such as Furniture Village)
$1.5m/yr savings (40)
Savings of 200 t/yr plastic,
270 t/yr cardboard; £125k/yr
Savings of 13t cardboard; 2.5t
plastic; £20k/yr
(43;
38)
(44)
n/a (43)
n/a (31)
17 tonnes of cardboard and
plastic packaging saved
during a trial
(45)
Envirowise
No
No
Retailer Halfords asked a supplier Summit
Accessories to switch to RTP
An unspecified retailer customer asked apetito
(frozen food company) to switch to RTP
Retailer Tesco worked with various suppliers to
switch to RTP
£25k/yr savings (16)
Savings of 112 t/yr
cardboard; 230 t CO 2 /yr
(46)
Savings of 46 kt/yr cardboard (43)
14 For Defra