Many people don’t realise that the methods you use to produce products for your business will impact on the amount of waste you have. Whether you work outdoors or in a small office, there will be waste accumulated and the best way to combat this is to think of environmentally friendly production processes.

Waste arising from production can have a big impact on your businesses profit and adds to environmental pollution. The difficulty is to try and reduce the waste in production without undermining the effectiveness of the process.
To find out where the waste is coming from you need to find the cause and understand the processes. A flow chart is a good way to pin point the problem.

Some things you may wish to do to improve waste reduction are:
· reusing rinse-water in cooling systems
· check that equipment is correctly calibrated
· reduce unnecessary stoppages in production
· upgrade or replace old equipment
· minimise spills or leaks
· use sealed systems to collect the waste in one area. This will mean that as much waste as possible can be reused or recycled.