Business and Environment Series: Yoakum - Closing the Loop: Managing Dowsntream Waste
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Aveda aims to reduce downstream waste through various initiatives. They work to reduce packaging waste by making packaging singular materials and easier to recycle. Aveda also pursues high recycled content in products and promotes recycling through a Materials Use Toolkit for employees and take-back programs with schools for collecting caps. The caps program involves schools collecting caps which are then recycled into new caps for Aveda products, closing the loop on waste.
Business and Environment Series: Yoakum - Closing the Loop: Managing Dowsntream Waste
- 1. Closing the Loop Managing Downstream Waste Kim Yoakum, CSP Director of Environmental, Health & Safety
- 2. Agenda • Aveda Overview • Internal • Downstream – Reduce Volume of Packaging – Aggressively Pursuing Recycled Content – Promoting Downstream Recycling • Materials Use Toolkit (MUT) • Take Back Programs • Caps Program
- 5. Internal
- 6. Reducing Packaging • Reduce size of packaging • No shells on caps/pumps • Singular Materials (not blending Polyethylene and polypropylene) • Focus on ease of recycling at curbside • Bag Clip Elimination
- 7. Recycled Content • Leader of PCR Content in Personal Care Industry
- 8. Materials Use Toolkit Guide to help employees make mission-aligned purchasing decisions. Biosphere Material Social Energy End-of- Health & Source Issues Use Life Safety
- 9. Package Take Back Program • Pilot Program in CO
- 11. Aveda Caps Program Enrolled Schools Box and Send Collected Caps Using The Pre Paid UPS Shipping Label Caps Are Sent To Recycler To Be Ground, Washed, And Pelletized Recycled Caps Pelletized Material Is Used To Mold New Caps Brand New Caps Are Received At Aveda To Use In New Product Packaging
- 12. The Process Flow
- 16. • When putting together your presentation for our event, we would like you to keep in mind that we are looking for you to talk about a specific example of how your company identified a waste source, strategized to minimize this waste source, and how you reduced it. Try to think of it as telling a story rather than a broad summary of Aveda's efforts. • When tackling a specific waste stream – how do you decide which one? How do you prioritize your waste (or more broadly,sustainability) challenges? • How does the magnitude of waste reduction when working downstream with consumers compare with waste reduction effortsmade within your facility? • Are there challenges specific to an external initiative – working downstream with consumers – that are different from working internally? (e.g. more education, outreach) • What strategies have you used to draw in customers and involve them in Aveda’s waste reduction efforts?