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Yes!
Cutting Waste
Can Help You
Bite Back*
Through the WasteWise program,
more than 850 of America's leading
businesses, institutions, and govern-
ments are demonstrating that solid
waste reduction cuts costs and
increases efficiency.
If your company is not actively reducing municipal
solid waste, you might be losing profits. From
equipment and supplies to packaging and office
paper waste, the scientific, photographic, and control
equipment industry generates substantial amounts of
trash. By reducing waste, you can save money, make
your company more competitive in the global market-
place, and increase customer and employee satisfaction
by becoming an ecofriendly business. The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) free
WasteWise program can help you minimize your com-
pany's waste while maximizing cost-effective operations.
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By reducing waste, you can save money and
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Save Money
As a WasteWise partner, your company can
save thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars by reducing,
reusing, and recycling solid waste materials. Many
WasteWise partners discover that waste prevention actions
reduce procurement costs and waste disposal fees and
increase productivity. Through the FunSaver disposable
camera return program in 1997, Eastman Kodak Company
eliminated more than 4.4 million pounds of film, plastic,
and paper materials and saved $300,000 by reusing parts to
make new cameras. The company recycles and reuses more
than 85 percent of the weight of each FunSaver camera.
Join Your Peers
When you join WasteWise, you become part of a net-
work of organizations reducing waste in their operations. You
will leam cost cutting waste prevention
strategies specific to your industry
and get valuable 'how-to' information
based on others' experiences.
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Waste Prevention
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Based on results achieved by Waste Wise part-
ners, waste prevention activities that scientific,
photographic, and control equipment industries
might consider include:
Save and reuse shipping
boxes and foam peanuts
for outgoing packages.
Donate surplus supplies
and equipment to local
schools and nonprofits.
Institute a materials exchange
program for lab stations.
Develop packaging material from
waste generated internally.
Use electronic data interchange
(EDI) to reduce paper forms and
invoices.
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assembled at the end of their
first life cycle so that parts and
materials can be reused.
Work with suppliers to
reduce their packaging.
Develop reusable containers
for vendor shipments.
Refurbish
wooden pallets or replace
with reusable plastic pallets.
Enable customers to return
product packaging for
reuse.
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Receive National Recognition
EPA provides national and local recognition for
WasteWise partners' successful waste reduction efforts
through publicized events, certificates, press releases, EPA
publications (both printed and on the Internet), and through
an annual awards program.
What Does It Take To
Be WasteWise?
* Commit to reducing waste. WasteWise partners join the
program for a 3-year period. As a first step, EPA encour-
ages partners to conduct a waste audit on their operating
and purchasing practices to identify cost-effective opportu-
nities for waste reduction.
Establish waste reduction
goals. Within the first 6
months of membership,
partners identify practical
and measurable goals tai-
lored to their specific
needs. Partners set
goals to prevent waste;
start or expand inter-
recycling collec-
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and/or
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"Through WasteWise,
we are able to contin-
uously improve our
solid waste program
by sharing ideas and
successes with other
member companies.
Recognition of our
efforts by EPA instills,
pride among our
employees and
enhances our goodwill
in the community."
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Registration Form
Q Yes! My organization is ready to become a
WasteWise partner.
(Please complete botli Sections A and B.)
Q I would like more information about the
program.
(Please complete Section A.)
Section A
Organization Name
SIC Code
Principal Contact
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Address
City
State
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Phone
E-mail
Fax
Section B
(Fill out only if you are joining as a partner.)
Facilities to be included in initial waste reduction efforts
(e.g., corp. headquarters only, regional facilities, etc.)
Approximate number of employees in these facilities
Signature of
Senior Official
Print Name
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Date
Please cut and fax to WasteWise at
703 308-8686 or mail to the WasteWise
program at the following address:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
WasteWise (5306W)
401 M Street, SW.
Washington, DC 20460
Preserving Resources.
Preventing Waste
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