Showing posts with label Envirowise. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Beat the Credit Crunch Through Resource Efficiency, Says Envirowise

Inefficient use of assets is still costing UK industry at atomic £15 billion anniversary year1, according to acceptable business able Envirowise. The Envirowise affairs provides free government-supported, advice, ecology appointment and documentation. With the acclaim crisis affecting all sectors, simple accumulation from ability ability could be a acceptable accession to basal lines.

Oxford, UK -- Figures from an Envirowise analysis conducted two years ago showed that a third of appointment workers acquainted that no action was taken to abate ability use in the workplace2, while a added contempo analysis begin that 82 per cent of UK businesses are now implementing accomplish appear arrest ecology issues3.

Envirowise - applied ecology admonition for business
Every aggregation has an appulse on the environment, and Environmental Legislation has been developed to ensure that their appulse stays aural able limits. Envirowise will advice you to annihilate or abate the could cause of your company's ecology appulse and advice you to accede with all accordant legislation.

It is auspicious that bisected of the 82 per cent of businesses demography accomplish to be added acceptable accede that there's still abundant added they can do We apperceive that generally businesses are impeded in their mission to be greener by time constraints and abridgement of ability about how to put new measures into practice. This is area Envirowise comes in. We aim to advice businesses acquisition added applied means to be acceptable and accomplish cost, abstracts or time accumulation in the process. The accepted bread-and-butter altitude requires us to be astute spenders both as individuals and business people. Achieving accumulation through bigger use of assets has a actual aftereffect on companies' basal curve and as a aftereffect we accept generally apparent bigger agents action and morale Getting started on the alley to ability ability can be simple and straightforward. And while chief administration buy-in is acute to success, the actuality is that any affiliate of agents in an organisation - at any akin - can accomplish a absolute difference. This may be partly due to afflicted chump attitudes: a analysis agitated out by YouGov on account of KPMG4, has apparent that 90 per cent of Britons accept become added environmentally acquainted at home - with four out of ten respondents accommodating to pay added for blooming products.

Envirowise is agog to see alone charge agitated added into the workplace. "It is auspicious that bisected of the 82 per cent of businesses demography accomplish to be added acceptable accede that there's still abundant added they can do," comments Elaine Sharp, Programme Marketing Manager. "We apperceive that generally businesses are impeded in their mission to be greener by time constraints and abridgement of ability about how to put new measures into practice."

"This is area Envirowise comes in. We aim to advice businesses acquisition added applied means to be acceptable and accomplish cost, abstracts or time accumulation in the process. "

A afresh launched online apparatus 'Words to the wise'5 - www.envirowise.gov.uk/change - can be a advantageous starting point. It will advice companies appraise the way they use assets and will accommodate cardinal abutment on how to improve.

"The accepted bread-and-butter altitude requires us to be astute spenders both as individuals and business people. Achieving accumulation through bigger use of assets has a actual aftereffect on companies' basal curve and as a aftereffect we accept generally apparent bigger agents action and morale" explains Elaine Sharp.

"Getting started on the alley to ability ability can be simple and straightforward. And while chief administration buy-in is acute to success, the actuality is that any affiliate of agents in an organisation - at any akin - can accomplish a absolute difference."
Companies absent to crop advantage of the casework of the Envirowise programme and accessible environmental events and seek admonition from our able admiral can alarm 0800 585794 or appointment www.envirowise.gov.uk

Issued on account of Envirowise by The Mistral Group
For added advice contact, Alison Hill or Lucinda Roberts on 01869 352 722 / alison.hill@mistral-pr.co.uk or 01869 352 729 / lucinda.roberts @ mistral-pr.co.uk
Notes to editors:
1. Envirowise advertisement 'Green Officiency '
2. Tick box surveyed a sample of 1894 appointment workers, age-old 16 years and above, above the UK amid 19 May and 9 June 2006.
3. Envirowise Market Penetration and Messaging, three-phase analysis conducted by Databuild amid April and September 2007, with inferior and chief agents at 200 ample businesses.
4. Research conducted online on account of KPMG by YouGov amidst 2,350 adults in Great Britain age-old 18 and over, amid 22 and 27 May 2008.
5. 'Word to the wise' is a chargeless online apparatus from Envirowise; it guides users through the action of accumulation the account of ability ability and decay minimisation aural their business. A abbreviate check identifies area the organisation is now, makes suggestions on area to go next and provides advantageous accoutrement and cardinal abutment for demography those steps. www.envirowise.gov.uk/change

About Envirowise
Envirowise delivers a ambit of chargeless casework and able admonition to businesses above the UK - including a absolute ambit of publications and acceptable convenance case studies, applied workshops for firms, as able-bodied as a absolute website and admonition line. Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UK businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Good Things Come in Green Packages

The Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) and acceptable business experts Envirowise accept collaborated on a new architecture adviser aimed at allowance artefact and packaging designers, as able-bodied as business managers and buyers, to advance the sustainability of their packaging, optimise costs and focus on accomplishing Environmental aims.

Oxford, UK -- PackGuide: A Guide to Packaging Eco-Design explains how to minimise the absolute aggregate of assets that go into authoritative the packaging, after abbreviation it to an admeasurement that the capacity are spoiled.

The quick reference, applied attributes of the Guide will accomplish it an invaluable circadian alive adviser for anyone absorbed in the ambiance and amount optimisation. It explains what needs to be advised to architecture packaging systems which will optimize the use of materials, activity and water, and abbreviate waste.

The adviser gives applied examples of how to minimise the ecology brand and optimise costs for carrying articles cautiously from acreage or branch to the chump or added end-user.

Jane Bickerstaffe, Director of INCPEN says: "When Envirowise came to us with the ambition of bearing a guide, we were actual agog to get involved. As a House of Lords Committee said in its contempo address on decay reduction, there are gaps in ability on designing for sustainability. We accede and anticipate there is a absolute charge for a quick and simple to use advertence certificate to advice designers accomplish acceptable architecture decisions. We feel this adviser will advice ample that ability gap."

Jenni Rosser, packaging specialist at Envirowise, says: "The charge for eco-design and its aggressive advantage has been recognised by arch retailers, brands and suppliers who are ambience adventurous packaging targets. The Courtauld Commitment for example, a autonomous acceding amid WRAP and above UK grocery organisations such as ASDA, Tesco and M&S, aims to bear complete reductions in packaging decay by 2010 and we accept abounding added companies would see the allowances of authoritative such a commitment."

The PackGuide: A Guide to Packaging Eco-Design is accessible on appeal via the Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794 or visit: http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/GG908

Media Enquiries:
Please contact: Caroline Charles or Harriet Jones at Bray Leino PR
Telephone: 0117 973 1173    Email: ccharles@brayleino.co.uk or hjones(at)brayleino.co.uk

Notes to Editors
PackGuide: A Guide to Packaging Eco-Design covers the afterward areas:

About Envirowise
Envirowise is a Government-funded programme committed to putting the acceptable use of assets at the affection of UK business practice.

Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UK businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Envirowise offers businesses of all sizes and sectors a advanced ambit of free, absolute and applied admonition advised to absolutely advance their processes, advantage and competitiveness. Services include:

 

    The Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794 An encyclopaedic website (www.envirowise.gov.uk) of admired and accordant advice Over 200 contest anniversary year, from Product Design Workshops to above exhibitions
    About INCPEN
    The Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment is a analysis organisations set up in 1974 to abstraction the ecology and amusing appulse of packaging. It draws calm an affecting accumulation of companies that accomplish throughout the accumulation alternation and allotment a accepted absorption in packaging, the ambiance and acceptable development.

Companies Urged to 'Think Outside the Box'

With above bazaar retailers advancing beneath analysis from a contempo Local Government Association survey(1) about their packaging, a new apparatus launched by sustainable business experts, Envirowise, looks set to advice companies abate the ecology appulse and costs of packaging.

Oxfordshire, England -- With above bazaar retailers advancing beneath analysis from a contempo Local Government Association survey(1) about their packaging, a new apparatus launched by acceptable business experts, Envirowise, looks set to advice companies abate the environmental appulse and costs of packaging.
Envirowise
The Envirowise packaging indicator apparatus for eco-design, piloted by Mars Chocolate, enables businesses to analyze the ecology contour of their own packaging designs to analyze area improvements can be made.

A contempo survey(2) conducted on account of the Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment (INCPEN) appear that 82 per cent of humans were anxious by the appulse of packaging, and Envirowise believes there has never been a bigger time for businesses to about-face to greener packaging to advance their ecology accreditation and cut costs.

Mars is fundamentally committed to sustainability and we bare an able apparatus with the appropriate akin of detail to use if because a new packaging architecture or re-design. This tool, advised by Envirowise, has accepted acutely advantageous in our artefact development process. However, there is consistently allowance for advance and, decidedly in today's bread-and-butter climate, businesses angle to account not alone in ecology agreement but aswell financially by analytic at how they can abate accidental packaging. Matt Boulter of the European Packaging Sustainability aggregation at Mars Chocolate says: "Mars is fundamentally committed to sustainability and we bare an able apparatus with the appropriate akin of detail to use if because a new packaging architecture or re-design. This tool, advised by Envirowise, has accepted acutely advantageous in our artefact development process."

Envirowise eco-design specialist, Jenni Rosser, comments: "Packaging has been challenged on ecology area for a amount of years and the industry has responded, not alone by putting cogent resources into recycling schemes, but aswell by continuing to abate the use of assets in packaging.

"However, there is consistently allowance for advance and, decidedly in today's bread-and-butter climate, businesses angle to account not alone in ecology agreement but aswell financially by analytic at how they can abate accidental packaging."

To advice companies get the a lot of out of the new tool, Envirowise has filmed a appropriate advisory podcast. Hosted on the Envirowise website, the podcast takes companies, step-by-step, through the process.

The new packaging apparatus can be accessed at wwww.envirowise.gov.uk/pack-in

For chargeless able admonition on ability ability from Envirowise, businesses can appointment www.envirowise.gov.uk oor alarm the Advice Line on 0800 585794.

For media enquiries and to appeal images or interviews amuse contact:
Graeme Jackson or Matt Pynn at Bray Leino PR
Telephone: 0117 973 1173        

Notes to Editors
About Envirowise
Envirowise is a Government-funded programme committed to putting the acceptable use of assets at the affection of UK business practice.

Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UKst1:place> businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Envirowise offers businesses of all sizes and sectors a advanced ambit of free, absolute and applied admonition advised to absolutely advance their processes, advantage and competitiveness. Services include:

The Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794
An encyclopaedic website (envirowise.gov.uk) of admired and accordant advice
Over 200 contest anniversary year, from Product Design Workshops to above exhibitions

(1) Local Government Association Survey, February 2009
(2) Survey agitated out by Ipsos MORI on account of INCPEN, November 2008

Resources:
resource efficiency, ecology impact, environment, ecology administration , sustainabilitys,waste management, sustainable, blooming business ecology action and baptize consumption.

Thirsty British Businesses Can Stem the Tide

With letters admiration baptize is set to become an added deficient and big-ticket resource[1 and that UK businesses are application abundant of it every year to ample 2.6 actor Olympic-sized pond pools(2), sustainable business experts Envirowise are admonishing businesses that they could be cloudburst money down the drain.

Oxfordshire, England -- With letters admiration baptize is set to become an added deficient and big-ticket resource[1 and that UK businesses are application abundant of it every year to ample 2.6 actor Olympic-sized pond pools(2), acceptable business experts Envirowise are admonishing businesses that they could be cloudburst money down the drain.

Envirowise

It is acute that humans are acquainted of the austere and circuitous issues about baptize accumulation and use and we achievement the new Water Efficiency Tool from Envirowise will advice businesses abode these challenges in the a lot of able way. Envirowise is advancement businesses to acquaintance them to acquisition out how simple, low amount initiatives to abate water consumption could advice save bags of pounds every year.

To accomplish it even easier for businesses to acquaint baptize extenuative measures, Envirowise has launched a new step-by-step online apparatus that helps companies analyze area and how baptize is acclimated and treated, the costs involved, and applied means to abate and re-use it. The apparatus aswell helps organisations accumulate ascendancy of costs and approaching affidavit adjoin amount rises and accumulation shortages.

Last year Envirowise ran Rippleffect, a chargeless action advised to advice businesses accouterment baptize use. Around 500 businesses active up for the arrangement and it is hoped that abounding added will account from baptize accumulation by application the new Tool.

Claire Sweeney, baptize specialist at Envirowise, says: "Whilst abounding of us accede baptize to be a bargain and amaranthine resource, the absoluteness is that we are application and crumbling far too much, and this is agreement added burden on absolute food as able-bodied as impacting on the basal line.

"It is acute that humans are acquainted of the austere and circuitous issues about baptize accumulation and use and we achievement the new Water Efficiency Tool from Envirowise will advice businesses abode these challenges in the a lot of able way."

To use the Water Efficiency Tool appointment envirowise.gov.uk/water

Envirowise offers a ambit of support, guides and factsheets for businesses absorbed in acceptable added baptize efficient. For added advice appointment the Envirowise website: envirowise.gov.uk or alarm the Advice Line on 0800 585 794

Media Enquiries:

Please contact: Graeme Jackson or Lyanna Tsakiris at Bray Leino PR
Telephone: 0117 973 1173

Notes to Editorso:

About Envirowise
Envirowise is a Government-funded programme committed to putting the acceptable use of assets at the affection of UK business practice.

Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UK businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Envirowise offers businesses of all sizes and sectors a advanced ambit of free, absolute and applied admonition advised tospan> absolutely advance their processes, advantage and competitiveness. Services include:

The Envirowise Advice Line on 0800 585794
An encyclopaedic website (envirowise.gov.uk) of admired and accordant advice OveOver 200 contest anniversary year, from Product Design Workshops to above exhibitions

[1 UN calculations, The Times, 22nd January 2009

[2 Review of Water Use in Industry and Commerce: Envirowise N.B. statistics referenced exclude utiutilities, agriculture, angle farming, Mfr of coke & petroleum products

RESOURCES:

ability efficiency, ecology impact, environment, ecology administration , sustainabilitys,waste management, sustainable, blooming business environmental policy and baptize consumption.

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