Resource Recovery and Zero Waste
What is Resource Recovery?
It is the extraction of useful resources from a waste stream that would otherwise be dumped at a landfill.
How our approach helps Municipalities, Regional Districts and other organizations:
- Achieve Zero Waste Goals through Resource Recovery
- Community based employment opportunities
- Economic Development
- Social Engagement – opportunities to connect with community
- Behavioural Change
- Generates Revenues, and
- Reduce Waste disposal Costs
What is Zero Waste?
A Zero Waste business creates no waste. So, no garbage. No tipping fees. No throwing anything away or burning things just to “get rid of them”. Everything is reused. Unfortunately garbage has been with us for so long that most people have internalized it as a social behaviour. Many businesses are convinced it is just a cost of doing business and that the creation of garbage is an innate activity, a fact of modern life. So the first job of a Zero Waste Business is to instil comfort in the idea that the creation of garbage has become unacceptable, unnecessary and no longer a cost of doing business.
Baseline Assessments
Our assessments build upon our Sustainability Opportunity Field Assessments methodology, SOFA. Our SOFA enables us to identify the current sustainable state of your company, the gap(s) to sustainability, and recommend short, mid, and long term actions required to achieve sustainability. The recommendations are based on an assessment of such factors as level of effort, costs, time, and risks. As a general guideline, we use the following framework:
- Services and Products: Created by your business and provided to your customers
- Service Elements: Supporting infrastructure to develop, support, and deliver your products and services, such as customer support
- Back Office Elements: Infrastructure and other cost items required to support your business, such as office space
- Metrics: Sustainability Indicators (SIs) associated with the sustainability of your business, such as the carbon footprint components
- Analysis and Instrumentation: The analysis required once the appropriate tools are used to extract information to measure your businesses SIs
- Reporting Mechanisms: The reporting template and processes to get the right information to the right people
- Accountability: Identifies who or what is accountable for monitoring, creating, and reporting on sustainability
Greenhouse Gas Management
We know how Greenhouse Gases (GHG) impact our environment, and the drive to reduce emissions has become a critical issue for governments and businesses around the world. We need to learn how to measure and manage GHG footprint and assess the associated risks and opportunities.
Power producers, fuel suppliers, manufacturers and government agencies are fighting the battle of GHG reduction. Business managers need to understand their GHG emissions, the implications of carbon management and strategies.
The bottom line is GHG costs will be increasingly introduced into your operating expenses and impacting your profitability. We can help you measure your GHG footprint, and identify alternatives and options for reducing or eliminating your impact and becoming more competitive and profitable.
Carbon Dating Service
Your business has a big challenge ahead in addressing your dependence on technology and processes that generate Greenhouse Gases, such as burning fossil fuels. At Greenomics, we concluded we need to turn GHG Assessments into a commodity so that it is quick, effective, and affordable.
- Don’t waste time and money drilling down to the last molecule then spending more money to offset.
- Turn your Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy into a benefit to counter balance the costs.
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Zero Impact
Zero Impact businesses essentially offer clean, green products and services with no negative impact on the environment. This strategy requires changes to every aspect of most businesses from printing invoices, to delivering products. By adjusting our business practices to to align with the zero impact philosophy, we can drastically cut our overall carbon footprint and reduce our negative effect on the environment.
One of our fundamental needs is food production. Our current practices of production, distribution, and preparation contribute significant damage to the environment. There are options that can solve this dilemma, if we think it through. For example, home gardens, raw and seasonal foods, composting, minimal use of kitchen appliances, and eating low on the food chain. These same basic approaches can be applied in every business environment, which can lead to reduced costs and increased revenues.
