Analysis of Waste Management Practices at ASDA Supermarket in the UK

This report examines the waste management practices of ASDA Supermarket in the UK, focusing on their commitment to sustainability and reduction of environmental impact. The report delves into ASDA's implementation of the waste hierarchy, including reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing strategies. It highlights initiatives such as customer drop-off programs for recycling, efforts to reduce packaging waste, and the remanufacturing of products like ink cartridges. The report also discusses the role of reusable packaging, e-waste management (WEEE), and the application of the circular economy process to minimize waste and optimize resource utilization. Advantages and disadvantages of the processes are also outlined, along with the final option of landfill disposal. Overall, the analysis provides a comprehensive overview of ASDA's approach to waste management, demonstrating their efforts to balance operational efficiency with environmental responsibility.

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Examining the waste Management Practices of ASDAS Supermarket in the UK

Waste management
 Waste management is one of the most important practises which is required to be
focused on by organizations so that they can monitor, manage, transport and process
waste material.
 ASDA also uses various kinds of waste management practises to reduce environmental
impact on their operations, reduce overall operational cost and increase awareness
related to waste management.

Waste Hierarchy
 As ASDA operates on Zero waste policy, they follow this hierarchy to reduce their
usage of natural resources.
 There are many other organizations who have take an initiative towards environment
such as Rolls Royce.
 In order to gain sustainability, increase operational performance they focus on waste
hierarchy and maximum products that can be reused are reused by them.

Reuse
 Reuse of waste is basically an operation by which components or products can be
reused again either for same purpose or for some other purpose.
 ASDA offers an option to their customers where they can drop off their used or old
products into the stores to be recycled such as mixed plastic, waste paper etc. to be
reused.

Packaging
 ASDA has taken a step to reduce this unnecessary packaging waste and are focusing on
making all of their packaging 100 percent recyclable.
 In fact, they are focusing on reducing material used for packaging so that at least 10
percent of plastic used for packaging can be reduced

Re-manufacturing
 ASDA focuses on remanufacturing of various products for example they remanufacture
ink cartridges for HR printers.
 worn out ink cartridges are again sent back to ASDA to be remanufactured.
 There are many more organizations that uses this remanufacturing process as one of the
waste management process.

Repair
 ASDA has taken initiative to repair
all kinds of plastic bags or baskets
to be reused.
 Using this process raw materials
from waste are used and repaired
and can be sold to the customers.

Recycle
 ASDA has created their own recycled in-stores where any one can drop off anything so
that people are sure that their products will be recycled in a proper and effective
manner.
 It is one of the most efficient and best method they have opted in order to reduce waste

Reusable Packaging
 Reusable packaging is considered as packaging that is made of durable material and
this type of packaging is designed for multiple trips with extended life.
 There are different type of packaging material are used by the retail sector companies.
Plastic is one of the most common which is mostly used by organizations in packaging
process.
 The plastic that is used for packaging purpose can not be reused for other purposes.

E -Waste management (Waste Electrical and Electronics
Equipment, WEEE)
 WEEE is also known as European community directives on electrical waste and
electronics equipment's.
 In this process some directives has been settled by European law regarding Collection,
recycling and recovery of various type of electronics goods.
 This law includes all the electrical and electronics equipment's like batteries, plugs and
other electronic waste.
 According to community standards it is financial responsibility of the producer is to
manage the environmental impact of products that are manufactured by them

Circular Economy Process
 The Circular economy is an economical system that is
aiming to eliminating waste and continuous use of
resources.
 In this process they use the concept of recycling to
produce products. This can help them to reduce use of raw
material and help them to reduce the manufacturing am
processing cost f products.
.
 This is how ASDA Supermarket can use the concept of
Circular economy to make their business process more
efficient.

Advantage and disadvantage
Advantage
 The other stage the products are provided to the consumer for use in house holds. After
using this products customer can provide these products back to company and company
can reuse or recycle some parts of those products in manufacturing to reduce the over
all cost of the company
 Disadvantage
 This is quite lengthy process and entity needs to monitor each progress closly otherwise
it may waste time of company.

Land Fill
 Land filling is the last option which is used by the organization in the process of the
waste management.
 The waste products that can not be reused or recycled by the organization is used to
dumped in the land fill sites which are used for the process of waste management of
material that can take long time in biodegradation process.
 By using this process ASDA Supermarket will be able to reduce the negative impact of
waste products on environment, society and economy.

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