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Zero Waste Management
Zero Waste Management for E-Waste Done the Surplus Service Way
Introducing ZeroCycle®
Our ZeroCycle® products may assist you in increasing sustainability and reducing waste, as well as documenting and highlighting your initiatives to management.
Local governments, counties, and cities in California and other states have implemented zero waste programs or passed resolutions related to zero Waste.
These zero waste guidelines don’t just apply to government facilities. They apply to businesses and other organizations as well. Environmental, Health and Safety, IT, and facility managers know that zero Waste is important, which is why tracking your sustainability efforts makes all the difference.
Part of achieving Zero Waste for any business or organization is about maintaining a commitment to the triple bottom line of (PPP), People, Planet, and Profit.
Exactly what is Zero Waste?
Zero Waste means conserving all resources through responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and discharging to land, water, or air that may threaten the environment or human health.
According to CalRecycle, aiming for zero waste means designing products and packaging with reuse and recycling in mind. Most government, business, industrial, educational, etc., organizations are currently or very soon targeting Zero Waste, Net Zero Carbon (NZC), Zero Carbon Footprint (ZCF) etc. With dwindling raw materials, current and future generations are demanding zero waste initiatives and putting their purchasing power, the money behind it.
Currently, our world’s production system commonly goes one way—from natural resources to landfills:
Today, a 90% reduction of e-waste being sent to landfills is considered an achievable goal by such groups as the Zero Waste International Alliance and the U.S. Zero Waste Business Council. Our ZeroCycle® programs and unique reporting can help businesses and organizations achieve this goal.
Surplus Service’s ZeroCycle® Zero Waste Reporting, tools, and equipment will ensure that your social, environmental, and economic performance standards are met together.
We can help you maintain transparent accounting and reporting systems so that your business or organization operates with the highest ethical standards for your customers. Our ZeroCycle® programs will bring out the best in you and your ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) Sustainability objectives.
To be more specific, this broken production system goes:
Extracting natural resources
Like trees, precious metals, and petroleum.
Manufacturing the product
This often pollutes and excretes toxic and wasteful practices into products designed for the dump.
Distribution
Often shipping takes time and to long distances places, from the factory to the store.
The product gets sold
For consumers who receive a defective item, some return it to the store. And for the distributors, there are few options now to process reverse logistics. Often, it is additional work for most companies.
Disposal of product
After using the products, most companies would dispose of these old used or defective electronics. Some toss it in trash bins where who knows where it would go. Some give it to recycling centers, where some tears them apart, destroying their value. When we need new products, we just head back to the natural resources like they are in infinite supply.
Do you know
What are the 5 principles of Zero Waste?
These are the “5 Rs” that make up the basic rules of zero waste.
These rules were proposed by Béa Johnson in her book “Zero waste home: the ultimate guide to simplifying your life by reducing your waste” published in 2013.
There is no denying that climate change is a grave issue that threatens our generation and later generations.
Every day, the world generates at least 3.5 million tons of plastic and other solid waste.
If nothing is done about it, this daily number will increase by 7.5 million tons by the end of the century.
On a global scale, the United States is the supreme leader of waste. We produce 250 million tons of trash a year.
This trash ends up in landfills — holes in the ground that bury waste underneath soil and seem to say, “OK! That’s done with! It’s not our problem anymore!”
Anjali Mangla | Yale University | OCT 01, 2020
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