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Case Study: Supporting Asda’s ‘Zero Waste’ Strategy
“We’ve set ourselves the target of sending zero waste to landfill by 2010.”
Asda’s Store Design-Retail Development department asked Q4 to help them to implement this ‘Zero Waste’ strategy…
Project date: 2009 - 10
Brief:
- analysis and grading of a complete store’s equipment to provide an annual benchmark for new design initiatives
- create ‘Zero Waste’ policy for Store Design-Retail Development Dept.
- provide sustainability/waste elimination design process improvements and control templates, and relevant support materials and guidelines
Challenges:
- complexity of project and lack of readily available data
Output::
- analysis of materials and weights by overall store, each department, individual fixture and component/sub-component
- Ecosmart grading of fixtures and overall department (materials & deconstruction)
- overall materials breakdown & quantities, and recycling/disposal guide
- Zero Waste Design process management templates, guidelines and checklists for design managers, internal and external designers, procurement teams and suppliers
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