Working towards Net Zero – a Sustainable Business Ambition

To future proof your organisation in today’s fast-changing world, you need to balance economic and environmental considerations to ensure responsible, ongoing success.  Therefore, oil waste companies must develop a continuous improvement program that encompasses the implementation of an energy strategy. 

Waste Management Plans are not new. They have directed robust management strategies of achieving environmental compliance with the least impact on costs.  As the need for the measurement of carbon footprint and mitigation of discharge of GHG emissions becomes commonplace, any waste management strategy must consider the release of GHG into the environment as a significant consideration.  

Governments are pushing their economies towards a range of net zero carbon goals. It is important and virtually unavoidable that companies in the energy and waste management sector step up and reduce their own carbon footprints AND assess how their products and services impact their clients’ carbon footprint.

But what does Net Zero mean?  Net zero simply means achieving a balance between GHG emissions produced and those removed from the atmosphere.

By building a carbon reduction plan that balances these economic and environmental considerations waste generating companies will be best placed to outperform their competition and drive long-term success. 

So, if you are looking to assess your organisation’s carbon foot print and create a plan to reduce it and explain to your client how you can help reduce their carbon foot print, how do you start? Where to begin? Well, we have put together a useful action plan template to help guide you through this process.

Download our Net Zero Action Plan to find out what steps you can take now to reduce your carbon footprint in operations.

What's Your Waste Management Problem?

Here at SAS-ES we love talking to our customers. Talking about what’s working, what’s not working, and one of our favourite topics of conversations is problems!

We love solving problems - the bigger and messier the better. That is why this blog post is dedicated to problems… and of course finding solutions to these problems. 

Problems are good. If you don’t have problems, there’s a good chance you’re not trying hard enough. The biggest problem with problems isn’t actually finding the solution, but it’s properly defining the problem in the first place. 

Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had one hour to save the world, he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. 

Keeping this in mind, what are your waste management problems?  

If you need some help to get you going, here are a few thought starters.

• What keeps you awake at night?

• What headaches do you have that you would love to disappear?

• What is preventing your operations from being more efficient?

• What is preventing you from achieving your business/personal goals?

• What are your employees’ biggest challenges?

• What are your customers’ complaints that are creating problems for you?

• What are your customers’ problems you could possibly solve?

Now that you have a good list of problems, check out “Einstein’s Secret to Amazing Problem Solving” to get started finding a solution.

If your problem involves oil contaminated waste, heavy oil sludge, refinery waste etc. we’d love to hear about it. We may not have a solution, but if we don’t then we’re happy to help in any way we can to move you towards a good solution… or at the very least, help you to clearly define your problem.