Zip Boiling Water Taps - moving toward 100% recycled!
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
"we also save on all the associated environmental costs,
and we know we are doing the right thing by the planet"
Production Manager at Zip, Chris Poole, and the
entire Zip Manufacturing/ Factory team are involved in a push to
drastically reduce waste during the production of the Zip range of
award-winning Instant Boiling Water systems.
You can watch the Video
Case Study here, or read on to learn more...
"As a World Class business we recognise our responsibility
to lead from the front and reduce to a minimum our business
Environmental Impact" says Poole.
Zip Heaters' initiatives include empowering the
Zip Factory Team via "Employee Involvement". The Employee
Involvement Theme for 2009/2010 is "Environmental Challenge". Each
member of the team is encouraged to manage their own environment
with a view to highest quality and lowest waste. The financial
benefits are obvious, but Poole says the main reason for these
initiatives has to do with company conscience and
responsibility.
Poole cites the following as an example of an
excellent afternoon shift Environmental Employee Involvement
idea:
"We are using the cardboard carton from incoming
transformers to store the tap small parts and ship to our customer
rather than send to landfill. Not only do we save the cost of
buying in the plastic bags (over 3,500 bags per year), we also save
on all the associated environmental costs, and we know we are doing
the right thing by the planet"
So what Environmental costs are associated with a
plastic zip-lock bag?
Use of raw Material = reduced Natural
resource
Transporting bag to Processing Factory plus Emissions
& fuel
Energy to convert Material into bag plus Emissions plus
Process waste
Transporting of bag to customer plus emissions
& fuel
Transport of waste packing bag from Factory To
Landfill + emissions & fuel
Landfill decay Can take up to 7 years plus
Soil/water contamination by leaching chemicals
from Landfill
Damage to Environment / Impact on wildlife
Zip Heaters is proud to report that today the
Plastic bag previously used to store parts is no longer required,
the bag no longer goes to landfill and the box can be recycled by
the customer downstream. It is a small win but is indicative of the
thinking which permeates the Zip culture today.
Poole's team has implemented factory-wide
tracking of the following: Landfill, Energy use (all types),
Recycled material (All types), Eliminated or re used material.
Zip Manufacturing is committed to Environmental
challenge now and in the future. The challenge remains strong to
drive to a minimum Zip's global impact on the earth's environment.
Says Poole,
"It would be good to say 100% recycled material,
100% recyclable material in terms of packaging into the future. So
that would really be our goal"
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Can't view the Video Case Study? Watch it on YouTube here.