Waste minimisation has survived the cycle of popularity and topicality and has risen once more to the forefront of energy and environmental management, whether your driving force is environmental compliance, the imminent application of IPPC, or simply the ever-present drive to save money.

Waste minimisation can lead to significant savings in utility costs for industry. In many cases energy and water reductions in excess of 20% are commonplace for only minimal outlay. These are easily achieved by changes to inefficient practices and systems, which can be highlighted in a simple energy and water survey. Further reductions to 50%, are also realisable with investment in newer and more efficient plant.

Aqua Enviro seek to form long term partnerships in order to assist in environmental compliance and help to achieve and maintain reductions in energy and water usage. Our Engineers can provide detailed reports on behalf of our clients listing areas of concern for water and energy usage, we can also detail materials which can be cost effectively recycled.

There needs to be a desire within the business to achieve energy and waste reduction. Support for the scheme is needed from top level down through to all levels of the workforce to ensure success. Aqua Enviro have the technical knowledge to undertake high-level studies and implement full waste minimisation projects for industry, while ensuring involvement for all the key figures at the plant.
Our approach is to:

•  Select and train your Project Champion
•  Carry out a waste stream analysis and identify the cost of waste
•  Construct a project programme
•  Assist with the selection and co-ordination of your energy management teams
•  Carry out review sessions on your progress and provide guidance
•  Introduce monitoring and targeting methods, to maintain impetus and to provide detailed  management information into the success of each initiative
•  Introduce techniques to enable you to sustain the programme
•  Provide effluent analysis with results to challenge the local water authority on effluent charges

Aqua Enviro are able to receive external data from our customers to provide statistical analysis on a weekly or monthly basis. We are able to perform detailed regression analysis on the data to itemise areas of large cost and to advise immediately if trends appear.

Aqua Enviro can also perform detailed analysis of all influent and effluent streams to determine BOD, COD, settled solids, pH etc to gain information on the effluent content. On many occasions our customers have been significantly overcharged for their effluent due to calculations being made on spot samples rather than composite analysis. The analysis also forms a record of due diligence in the case of discharge contravention. See Wastewater Analysis section.