3.9 Waste minimisation

A process that involves reducing the amount of unwanted or unusable resources created

by the business’s production process in an attempt to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.

• Waste maximization

• Waste reduction

• Waste minimisation

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Waste minimisation strategies include: Reduce, Recycle and ........

A structured approach allows all employees to be aware of the processes implemented and this can form part of the training of new employees and be built into the culture of the business.

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This is achieved by creating less waste. In doing so, a business is able to decrease its

costs, which improves efficiency. Lower costs of production can often lead to an increase

in profits and so operations become more effective.

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Refuse

Reusing functional parts of defective products.

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Refuse

This is taking old or unwanted items you might otherwise throw away and finding a new

use for them. Once an item has been used for its intended purpose, it may be possible to

repurpose it and reuse it in another way.

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Refuse

This is changing discarded materials into new products in order to avoid using more virgin

resources.

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Refuse

Just in Time (when arranging the delivery of materials) is an example of which strategy?

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Refuse

If a business can introduce a quality system that identifies

defective processes and products before they occur (TQM or quality assurance) this is an example of which strategy?

• Reduce

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Refuse

Robotics or automated production lines to remove human involvement in repetitive, dangerous

and/or precision tasks so that defective products aren’t generated, this is an example of which waste minimisation strategy?