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Cleaner Production Partnerships

CWW Trade Waste Consultant with the Operations Manager of a new manufacturing plant.

Cleaner production means thinking about your work and designing your work processes to reduce the amount of waste being produced, or prevent waste from being created in the first place.

As part of our service to customers, City West Water provides advice and assistance in the areas of cleaner production and waste minimisation.

We have also formed a cleaner production partnership with EPA Victoria, under which we have selected three specific areas for project work. These are:

• Waste management planning;
  
• Greasy waste management; and
  
• Solvent waste.
  

These project areas focus on improving waste management plans for our customers, reducing quantities of greasy waste (trade waste containing fats and oils) and organic solvents that are discharged to our sewers.

Waste Minimisation

We are always looking for new waste minimisation initiatives to benefit our customers and the environment. We are committed to the EPA Victoria's Industrial Waste Management Policies and to promoting waste minimisation amongst our customers and the community. Our approach to waste minimisation is based on the waste management hierarchy that focuses on the following steps in order of preference:

1. Avoidance
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
4. Recovery of energy
5. Storage
6. Treatment
7. Containment or disposal

City West Water Environmental Officer discussing trade waste samples with an industrial customer.

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