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Measures, Technologies and Good Practices
Do you want to know how much different measures and technological solutions would cost and how much money and resources they can save for your business? This database offers such data in a concise and comprehensive format.
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Technology
Smarter wastewater treatment in shopping malls
The treating of wastewater onsite in shopping malls could significantly reduce the water bill and bring other environmental benefits, such as water recycling and wastewater minimisation.
Major...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Water
- Waste
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost 50-90% 1 - 10 Year(s)
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Good practice
Enterprise resource planning benefits a bakery
Ask the staff how to boost the business!
Efficient water management helped a bakery to reduce water bills by € 3 600 per year
Programme forms important part of the company's enterprise resource...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Energy
- Water
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost 5 - 6 Year(s)
Good practice
Environmental management for Bulgarian hotel
Proven steps to better performance
Improved energy management leads to direct cost reduction
Increased environment awareness leads to secondary cost reduction
Sevlievo Plaza is a modern hotel located...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Energy
- Water
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost 1 Year(s)
Good practice
Benefits of green laundry programmes, hotel case
Emphasis on green gains, not cost-savings is key
Hotel in Bulgaria saves about € 2 400 annually through green laundry programme
Option to reduce sheet and towel replacement for guests staying...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
Resources:
- Energy
- Water
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 1 Year(s)
Good practice
Retrofitting for water efficiency: hotel case study
Guest rooms, the big water consumer
Audit reveals where the biggest water savings can be achieved in UK hotel
Water cost savings of 24 % achievable, and investment in a retrofit could be repaid...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
- Hotel and restaurant
- Office and administration
Resources:
- Water
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost 1.25 Year(s)
Technology
Closing water cycles
Water purification technologies and closing water cycles are an important solution to save costs and decrease environmental impacts in the process industry. The need for pure water is growing, and...
Sector / Industry:
- All sectors
Resources:
- Water
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
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Wastewater is a resource too
The average consumption for EU member countries is 128 litres per inhabitant per day and most of it turns into wastewater.
The status of wastewater has improved tremendously over the past few years....
Sector / Industry:
- All sectors
Resources:
- Energy
- Water
- Waste
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
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Ecodesign for remanufacturing
Remanufacturing is the process of returning a product or component to a state of quality equivalent or superior to that of the original product. After the product is discarded by its user and picked...
Sector / Industry:
- All manufacturing industries
- Manufacturing of machinery and equipment
Resources:
- Energy
- Materials
- Water
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost 30-40 %
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Full product recovery: circular economy strategy...
Currently, discarded products are often considered as ‘waste’, while in the best cases, some parts are recovered or the product is recycled to recover materials. A circular economy model closes the...
Sector / Industry:
- All manufacturing industries
- All sectors
Resources:
- Energy
- Materials
- Water
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost
Good practice
Environmental laundry in Czech Republic
The beautiful, environmental laundry...
Renewable energy is used in high energy applications, saving € 25 000 annually
Laundromat uses environmentally friendly detergents
Thanks to renewable energy,...
Sector / Industry:
- Hotel and restaurant
- Service sector
- Textile and clothing
Resources:
- Energy
- Materials
- Water
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 1 Year(s)
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Good practice
Adding value to surplus soft fruits on the farm
Juicy profits from waste fruit
Farm converts surplus strawberries into high-value fruit syrups, transforms a loss-making resource into a profit-making product (over € 224 100 per year)
50 % losses...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
- Other
Resources:
- Materials
- Water
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Low cost 1 Year(s)
Good practice
SME drinks company identifies market for leftover fruit
Giving wonky fruit a new lease of life
Options explored for reusing waste from an SME drinks company
New markets identified for surplus fruit
Opportunities identified for 111 tonnes of apple pomace,...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Energy
- Materials
- Water
- Waste
- Carbon
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