Real Recycling, Real Savings, Real

Environmental Change
Presented by Jerry Dempsey
Tuesday 23rd, March 2010
 is Ireland’s leading provider of
environmental, waste management and recycling services,
offering a range of expert services customised to suit the
requirements of all types of businesses from collection,
waste minimisation, recovery, recycling consultancy and
waste auditing.
NTR’s Strategy Meets Global Challenges

Securing A Greener Future

Climate Change

The macro factors of climate

change, resource
sustainability and security of
energy supply underpin the
“
Security of Energy Supply structural growth
opportunities for the NTR
Group.

Resource Sustainability
NTR Group Overview
Our Locations
Economic Slowdown

3.4
Tonnes of Waste generated in Ireland

3.5
3.2

3 2.9

2.5

1.5

1
2007 2008 2009
Change How We Think About Waste

How do we ensure we don’t allow waste to rise is tandem

with increased commercial activity as the economy

improves?
Captured Gas Produces Electricity
Solid Fuels are Produced
Legal Requirements

Packaging Regulations

Battery Disposal Regulations

Food Waste Regulations

Protect The Future

Key to protecting our future is to focus on:

* Real Changes
* Real Recycling
* Real Savings

Focus on waste avoidance.

View waste as a resource.

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we
used when we created them.”

Albert Einstein
Reduce Your Waste Costs

What’s in my bin?
€1,000 of your product
Contents of Average Bin
Recyclable

Recyclable
Reduce Your Waste Costs

How do I stop creating waste?

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle
Reduce Your Waste Costs

Reduce:

Stock levels

Excessive packaging

Portion size

Choices

Cosmetic quality standards

Reduce Your Waste Costs

Re-Use:
Challenge barriers preventing you from re-
using items

Switch from the disposable to the reusable

Switch to materials such as glass which offer

infinite re-use

What is preventing you from

re-using a material?
Reduce Your Waste Costs

Recycle:
It is better to recycle than dispose but…….

… currently 49% of commercial waste is recycled,

however many companies are achieving real
recycling rates of up to 80% and 90%

What is your recycling number i.e. how much of

your waste is being recycled?
How Can You Implement Changes
Quickly?

Appoint a champion
Review all your waste streams
Set achievable goals to improve your waste
management
Measure progress and celebrate early success
Choose some highly visible changes to work
practice
Borrow ideas from your peers
Get your waste management supplier to carry out
the bulk of this work with you
Start Small, Change Big
Commercial Case Study

Key Issues identified:

• Historically low non haz recycling rate 45%
• Need for more efficient use of raw materials, maximise recycling
• GS appointed mid 2007. Target 80% recycling by 2008
• Invert the WM hierarchy in practice on site
• Raise awareness - continuous improvement
Implemented Solutions:

Partnership Approach with GS

Audit of site conducted waste re-classification effected

GS trialled & sourced new outlets for recycling/composting

Biodiesel manufactured / metals & plastics diverted from disposal

Chain-of-Custody - Wyeth branded wastes certified recovery

Improved Segregation - canteen waste & binless office program
Result:
 Recycling rates: 65% at 2007, 89% at 2008, 90% at 2009
 2007-2009 cost savings €250K per annum
 Reduced carbon footprint – 114t CO2 annually
 2009 “centre of excellence” within Pfizer Group
 IBEC Environmental Excellence Award 2009

Higher Competition at a Value Cost – One Happy Client

“Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up
where we are going.”

Chinese proverb
Recycled Waste meets Renewable Energy
“Everything in excess is
opposed to nature.”
Hippocrates, ca. 400 B.C.
 Jerry Dempsey
Greenstar Ltd
Unit 6, Ballyogan Business Park
Sandyford
Dublin 18

Tel: 01- 2947900

www.greenstar.ie