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Firms ''should enhance resource efficiency''

5 February 2010
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Firms ''should enhance resource efficiency''Ensuring that businesses are sustainable can assist them in reducing costs and their impact on the environment, one expert has suggested, something that operations management could assist with.

Commenting on a new Beyond Carbon study from the Aldersgate Group, director of design and resource minimisation at waste reduction body WRAP Richard Swannell noted that a resource efficient economy can provide benefits on "environmental, economic and social" benefits.

"We cannot afford to ignore the increasing pressure we are putting on our water and food supplies, as well as on other important natural resources," he declared, pointing to the "intelligent and sensible solutions" included in the report.

A programme of continuous improvement may assist companies in the services sector to meet sustainability goals and help to combat climate change.

Speaking ahead of the launch of the study, environment secretary Hilary Benn suggested that more efficient enterprises are likely to enjoy greater success as natural resources become both scarcer and more expensive.ADNFCR-3058-ID-19596787-ADNFCR
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