Large companies becoming more sustainable
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- Created on: 01-06-13 16:03
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- Explain attempts being made by companies to become sustainable. (6)
- Asda/Walmart
- Distribution centre, Didcot, Oxfordshire
- Recycles all of its plastic packaging rather than sending it to landfill sites.
- More sustainable as landfill sites are filling up , and so this helps save space for the future.
- Distribution centre has a new baler which compresses the plastic to 10% of its original size, so it can fit more into lorries.
- Plastic only has to be collected once a week, rather than 4 times a week, reducing Asda's carbon footprint.
- Asda benefits as it gets paid to recycle all of its packaging and it saves on transport costs.
- The environment benefits as less waste goes to landfill, and so it is more sustainable due to fewer carbon emissions.
- Communications industry, e.g. Nokia
- Nokia has given information on its website on where to find recycling points and the address to send the phone to if there isn't a centre nearby.
- It does this because if every mobile phone user recycled one mobile it would save 240,000 tonnes of raw materials.
- Which would be more sustainable, as more raw materials would be left for future generations.
- General Electric
- General Electric is an example of a global company that has become more sustainable.
- It monitors its water usage and is improving water recycling by using recycled water in its boilers and cooling towers.
- Over the last 5 years, General Electric's fresh water usage had been reduced by 20% (enough to fill 3000 Olympic swimming pools)
- Which is keeping more water for public use, thus being more sustainable.
- POWER GENERATION
- TOURIST INDUSTRY AND PEOPLE IN THE WORKPLACE
- Hotels have a policy of only washing towels if customers have asked.
- More sustainable with water supplies, and companies provide their workers with different bins to deal with different waste products.
- This is often done in schools as well.
- This encourages recycling and so is more sustainable as fewer natural minerals are being used, leaving some for future generations.
- Also less waste goes to landfill.
- More sustainable with water supplies, and companies provide their workers with different bins to deal with different waste products.
- Video conferencing is used in offices to reduce the amount of car journeys.
- As this reduces carbon dioxide emissions, and so is more sustainable, as it's not contributing as much to climate change.
- Hotels have a policy of only washing towels if customers have asked.
- Asda/Walmart
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