Objectives

This course is designed to introduce resource efficiency to candidates and provide an overview of how to implement a resource efficiency program. The total cost of waste to a business, local authority or other organisation costs money – typically 10 times the disposal cost and is increasing all the time. Improved resource efficiency provides many benefits to companies including aiding compliance with legislation, finding and saving hidden costs, and running the organisations more efficiently.

Pre-requisites

There are no entry qualifications required for this environmental training course.

Course Content

• An introduction to resource efficiency-fundamental concepts including the resource hierarchy and the approaches taken to achieve continual improvement,
• Techniques used to identify resource streams including on-site audits and process mapping,
• How to quantify resource use,
• Data analysis – how and what to interpret?
• Identifying improvement opportunities (for example the low hanging fruit)
• An overview of planning, implementing and maintaining a working resource efficiency minimisation program.

Outcomes

      ● Understand the economic and environmental benefits of improved resource efficiency;

      ● Understand and explain the key elements of a resource efficiency audit;

      ● Be able to map resource use;

      ● Be equipped to critically analyse resource data;

      ● Understand the simple measures that can be implemented to improve the resource efficiency  of organisations;

      ● Identify relevant sources of support and reference.