What is waste reduction and prevention?
Ultimately, waste reduction and prevention is about behaviour change for the better. Waste reduction and prevention is a combination of strategies and processes that target waste generating behaviours at the source, in addition to traditional waste management strategies such as recycling and source separation.
What are the benefits of waste reduction and prevention?
- more profit
- more trust
- more efficiency
- more sustainability
- less greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs)
- less plastics
- less food waste
- less e-waste
- less risk
What kinds of waste do you prevent and reduce?
At Daniel Rotman Consulting, waste is viewed through a holistic, systems lens, and is analyzed using three general high-level concepts:
- Physical waste such as paper, plastics, metals, organics, garbage, GHG emissions, energy and water
- Time waste such as conflict, ineffective procedure and policy, and silos
- Digital waste such as unorganized/duplicate data, unneeded computing power and e-waste
Physical, time and digital waste are all interconnected and often focusing on only one without a holistic, systems perspective can create unintended impacts on the others. For example: implementing recycling policy without involving cleaning staff can create mismatches in staff expectations (cleaning staff don’t recycle) and confusing messaging, resulting in additional physical waste.
Consulting
Audit > Provide Feedback > Implement
Working within a data-based continuous improvement framework is your key to success. We provide data for LEED, or BOMA certifications and value added insights from neurosciences and social psychology to help you reach your targets.
Education
Our waste systems are changing all the time.
Every waste system needs good education to support targets. We design and facilitate workshops and sessions of all kinds, from lunch-and-learns to multi-day programming.
Clients
Daniel Rotman
Founder, Principal
Top five CliftonStrengths: Strategic, Activator, Self Assurance, Learner, WOO
Mission
To help people, companies and government reduce and prevent waste using insights from neurosciences and social psychology.
Vision
A future where unnecessary waste is prevented and necessary waste is redirected to beneficial use.
Key Values
Balance – Vision – Making a Difference – Adventure
The forest photo seen on this website was taken by Daniel Rotman in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC which is also the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of The Coast Salish Peoples: Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:Lō, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We acknowledge that the land we live, play and work on is not ours, and we strive to address waste so that we can keep our shared planet and all its inhabitants healthy. Want to know which indigenous peoples and languages live where you do? Check out https://native-land.ca/