Written by Mary Hallock, IMEC Technical Specialist
Continuously improving your company and eliminating waste includes the environmental and energy wastes that are being generated in your facility. Perhaps you should do as one company does and think of it not as waste, but EXCESS. Excess isn't garbage that needs to be thrown away, but extra materials that should be used.
Some entrepreneurs from the textile industry created a business solely focused on using the wastes from textile producers. They estimate that pre-consumer waste (everything we throw away in our factories) is 70 times the post-consumer waste (everything we throw away at home). That's a lot of opportunity!
One possibility is to up-cycle your excess factory waste into something new and unique. There is a lot of pre consumer excess out there that can be turned into clothing and accessories instead of being thrown away. Click here to go to the Looptworks website - maybe it will get you thinking about some new sources of raw materials for your business.
For more information on how to get your company to go green, contact IMEC representative Mary Hallock at 815.721.4474 or mhallock@imec.org.
