Waste audits

37 recommendations were made which would reduce waste, improve efficiency, ensure compliance with waste directives, save energy, reduce costs and improve CSR.

Summary

JRP were appointed to complete site waste audits to assist Amtico to gain a better understanding and control of their waste and associated costs across their three Midlands sites.

Although Amtico historically had a good approach to managing waste in the environment and health and safety teams, the business wanted to drive a better understanding of operational waste across the whole workforce, particularly temporary staff, who were previously dependent on good habits being passed on informally within the team.

A new strategic pillar “Zero in on Waste” had been introduced by Amtico to support raising the profile of waste across the whole staff and to provide a good platform from which to bring about behaviour change in a supportive way.

Scope

The purpose of the site waste audits was to support the new strategic pillar “Zero in on Waste” and JRP’s report was structured with that in mind.

JRP’s scope of work comprised:

• Manufacturing site visit with end-to-end process review
• Distribution and office site visit
• Review of current waste objectives
• Review of waste data and Duty of Care documents from waste contractors
• Review of materials and circular resource management opportunities

Results

JRP’s report took the 3 high-level areas of Amtico’s strategic pillar (1. Embedding circular economy thinking into processes; 2. Reducing installation waste; 3. Reducing operational waste) and developed specific recommendations which will enable the company to achieve them in practice. There were 37 recommendations, ranging from appropriate waste training across the company to ink cartridge collections and reviewing waste services provider contract.

Overall, Amtico is now well placed to take waste management from being compliance and cost-focused to waste avoidance and circularity-focused. The recommendations in JRP’s report supported this with each recommendation linked to the most relevant objective(s) in the waste pillar so that it could be taken forward as a target within the existing framework and the ISO 14001 system to give a secure monitoring framework and avoid duplication of work.

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