Environmental Engineering Waste Management

Environmental Engineering

Waste Minimization Evaluations

Waste audits: Efficiency and safety go hand in hand

Waste reduction makes good management sense. Where there is waste, there is inefficiency, and where there is inefficiency, there is an opportunity to reduce costs. Reducing waste increases productivity, safeguards the environment and strengthens the firm's economic base. Waste reduction is a demonstration of the firm's commitment to environmental protection.

A strategy for effective waste management

NORTECH can help you to effectively implement source reduction and recycling programs which will benefit the business by reducing both costs and liabilities. A waste minimization evaluation is an integrated approach involving:

Source reduction options
Recycling
Energy recovery
Treatment/ Reducing the toxicity and/or volume of hazardous waste.
Land disposal: Only considered as a last resort.

NORTECH's waste audit is an in-plant analysis of each operation generating waste. This requires considering the following for each process:

Good operating practices.
Input substitution or input materials modification
Technology modification
Closed-loop recycling
Product substitution


	Makes good sense Reduces inefficiency