Process Audits
Before being able to identify areas for process improvements and reduce product loss, we need to first understand present-day operations. We work with clients to review previous audits or conduct our own:
- Detailed Waste Audits: Our team studies the exact composition of our client's waste streams and link it back to the source of the waste. This provides us with a fulsome account of how much waste is generated from each area of operation
- Product Loss Audit: Our team evaluates how facility-level operations are functioning, from an efficiency, waste, and emissions perspective. This enables us to identify productive operational opportunities that will also contribute to our client's corporate sustainability goals.
By designing a waste reduction strategy based on our client's specific operations we are able to systematically define and target high-priority waste streams and generation processes. This step is typically followed by an Opportunity Assessment phase, as described on the following page.
Our Services
Detailed Waste Audits
Why? To Identify areas to improve waste sorting and collection.
How? We collect a sample of waste over a determined timeline and subset of processes, tracking actual contents and subsequently summarize the audit findings in a report to use in operational decisioning conversations. This process helps us identify areas to improve waste sorting and collection.
Product Loss Audit
Why? To define the scope of the waste sources and observe facility-level operations to understand present-day processes.
How? We conduct interviews with key facility team members to understand pain-points to assess business-as-usual operations to evaluate efficiency, wasted time and resources, and risks to facility downtime using sustainability principles.