What are the benefits for businesses? Embracing closed-loop methods offer significant benefits, including: - Decreased air pollution by producing little to no greenhouse gas emissions in the creation of new plastics from oil extraction. - Reduced landfill space and landfill taxes for businesses. - Minimised risk of harm to wildlife. - Opportunities to market your sustainable solutions to enhance customer satisfaction among those who prefer to buy sustainably. We provide some examples of success stories from different sectors: Retail Closed-loop recycling methods may offer big opportunities for retailers from a financial and environmental perspective. Clothing stores may choose to trial the take-back model in which customers can return garments to the retailer to be reused or recycled. Alternatively, retailers can take damaged clothing and transform them into other uses. Packaging can also be a chief concern for retailers. 40% of UK online shoppers, for instance, feel they are sent deliveries with packaging that is too big for what they ordered. One of the best ways to limit extraneous packaging is to employ a closedloop solution. This could include recycling old or broken materials or reusing packaging which would ordinarily be disposed as single use. Manufacturing Closed-loop recycling is a particularly effective system in manufacturing. Partnering with a waste management service can give better guidance on waste segregation at project depots to achieve zero waste. Problematic and difficult-to-process waste streams may include silicon, PVC banners, and fibre-based and laminated packaging. However, with the right guidance, even these difficult plastic waste materials can be recycled back into other products. Hospitality Food waste is particularly problematic as it can contaminate many other forms of waste which significantly reduces recycling opportunities. When food waste ends up in a landfill, it decomposes without oxygen which releases methane. The preferred solution is preventing food waste in the first instance, however, anaerobic digestion is the preferred solution for food waste.. This effectively PRO PLANET
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