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Resource efficiency

Resource efficiency

Resource Efficiency

Energy, water and waste can often be big costs to manufacturing businesses and food waste has an understandably high profile with many groups which is set to increase as policy moves towards mandatory reporting. Single-use plastics have come under the spotlight since the BBC’s Blue Planet II brought the issue of ocean plastics to a wider audience and other issues are not far behind.

The circular economy is a new(-ish) term for an old idea, treating ‘waste’ as a resource, but the concept is as valid as it has ever been. Taken together with general resource efficiency, ‘circular’ thinking can save money and open up new opportunities. With many larger organisations adopting standards such as ISO14001 (environmental management) and ISO50001 (energy management) there can be additional benefits from aligning to your customers’ priorities. A good environmental record is also a proven means of attracting and retaining talent.

Regulation is also evolving, with mandatory food waste reporting likely to happen in England in the next few years. We have experience of working with businesses across a range of categories  on measurement and reporting to an established international standard used across the nations of the UK.

Green Knight can help you work through your resource consumption, including formal life-cycle assessments, identify opportunities to make savings, contextualise these more broadly and communicate them to your key stakeholders.

Ethical Corp newsfeed

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    This year has picked up where 2022 left off, against a backdrop of extreme weather events, with record high temperatures in Europe and the west coast of the U.S. being lashed by a parade of explosive winter storms. Scientists tell us we are experiencing, in real time, the impacts of 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming since pre-industrial times. And they warn it is a small taste of what is in store if we fail to put the brakes on spiralling greenhouse gas emissions.Image: Channels: Climate and EnergyNatural CapitalTags: nature-positiveBusiness for NatureTNFDMcCormickEstée LauderAmerican ExpressNestléMarsIDH

GreenBiz newsfeed

  • How Kathy Cacciola is creating a greener global food program at Google
    on February 7, 2023 at 9:00 am

    A year into her new job as global sustainability lead of the food program at Google, Kathy Cacciola discusses the skills and strategies it takes to land such a prestigious role.

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