Describing waste in business terms

The first step in making sustainability real to the business, is to describe it in business terms. This booklet takes you through the three steps that will get you a handle on the cost to you of managing your waste (and the trickiness of converting weights, volume and costs):

• Identify the direct costs of waste (e.g. water emissions)
• Determine the indirect costs
• Calculate the sales necessary solely to cover these costs

This analysis will give you a sense of the scale of benefits to your company, and the scale of investment appropriate to managing them. Increasingly companies are developing “zero waste” goals and policies – and some have certified zero waste facilities. And they’ve done this to save money.

The savings from moving to zero waste facilities have not only paid for themselves – they’ve paid for our entire sustainability initiative, and significantly reduced our cost of doing business.

Ray Anderson, CEO Interface

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