Views: 40 Author: Tsubasa Rai Publish Time: 2021-04-22 Origin: Site
If you’re a facilities manager, you're responsible for reducing more waste out of waste management. Benefits from creating less waste for the organizations:
Costs of waste. Companies and institutions can see a big cost in dealing with waste. Some organizations do a great job on recycling materials, reducing unnecessary electricity consumption, and increasing recycling.
Gives a good brand image to the public. A focus on reputation and brand image is a sign that the company is looking well beyond the horizon.
Improves employee’s well-being, enhances productivity . A clean workplace can improve productivity of an organization.
Constringe your environmental footprint. Waste prevention and recycling buffer greenhouse gas emissions and save resources.
3 tips to make the waste project manageable:
Measure everything. EPA helps organizations sort out all the possible wastes of source, like packaging,paper, electricity, and shows organization visually on every measure.
https://www.epa.gov/smm/best-practices-wastewise-participants#01
In addition, using this link below can help you to track and manage data for a single building or a portfolio of buildings.
Set a goal. Find every opportunity to reduce your waste across the organization. For example:
Sourcing
Establish a green purchasing policy
Purchase eco-friendly toilet paper
Purchase clear furniture cover bags for facility storage.
Purchase airport cargo cover alike plastic paperfor warehouse businesses.
Eliminate bottled water
Recycling
Start a recycling program
Replace individual trash cans with a central disposal facility
Reuse packaging
Get others involved. If you are a big company, you can build a new team right now dedicated to waste reduction and recycling. Or, it doesn’t mean a small organization can not do the job well. You can assign new responsibilities to an existing group. You can also make a new environmental policy to restrict severe wastes.
