U3 3G waste minimization

Question 1

define waste

Answer 1

• any resource discarded after use
• also calssified as worthless / defective
• • and of no use

Question 2

positive / negative impacts of waste minimization

Answer 2

positive
- reduce resource costs
- reduce waste treatment costs
- prevent legal breaches / fines from EPA

negative
- money wasted on raw materials
- company can be fined from environmental protection authority (EPA)
- over produced goods can expire in storage then having to be discounted to sell

Question 3

define reduce

Answer 3

• waste minimization strategy to decrease amount of resource, labor or time discarded during production

e.g lower number of employees producing foods if more labor than customer demand

Question 4

define reuse

Answer 4

reuse means to make multiple uses of items that would otherwise have been discarded

e.g glass drink bottle business choose to have customers return used glass bottles to clean and reuse

Question 5

define recycle

Answer 5

recycle means to transform items which otherwise would have been discarded to another product

an application is dominos pizza established a recycling relationship by recycling cardboard from pizza boxes