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Compiled by Dr. Joe Herbertson
June 2001
Sustainable Resource
Processing
Sustainability
Reinforcing Performance Improvement
Businesses will increasingly be
judged in terms of their ‘triple bottom line’ performance. This means finding
economically attractive ways to reduce environmental impacts
and secure community support, ie generating value with reduced impacts. Getting more
from less is good business
ECO-EFFICIENCY
Increasing revenues
•products from wastes
•value adding outputs
•new business opportunities
Decreasing costs
•savings in energy, raw materials, water and
reagents
•waste reduction and
recycling
•minimising the costs of the
‘license
to operate’
•less capital by process simplification, smaller
‘footprint’
•Any approach to improving business performance should build
on and reinforce
the existing frameworks of operational excellence and continuous improvement:
*Measure - Control -
Improve
*Creative Teams as the Key
to Success
•Sustainability can
provide the stretch targets and the personal motivations in the workforce to breath new life
into business
improvement exercises and provide a springboard for innovation