Continuous improvement (sometimes known as “rapid improvement”) is a Lean improvement technique that helps to streamline workflows. The Lean way of working enables efficient workflows that save time and money, allowing you to reduce wasted time and effort. Sacrificing quality can rarely be justified by the ability to do something faster or cheaper. To maintain quality standards while cutting time and cost, companies turn to Lean ways of working, including continuous improvement. By observing continuous improvement best practices, companies can figure out ways to continue business as usual while analyzing improvement opportunities along the way. Another process of continuous improvement involves reviewing employees` performances.
s to minimize waste going to landfill by recycling. JD Wetherspoon was named as high street recycler of the year back in 2007 and today part of JDW’s Groovy plan is to recycle 95% of recyclable materials over the next 5 years. During the financial year 2013/14, JDW pubs segregated and returned 9,179 tonnes of waste to our distribution centre, In 2008 we produced 32,400 tonnes of waste of which 6,700 tonnes was glass which we recycled and 5,281 tonnes of packaging (1,616 tonnes of cooking oil, 3,136 tonnes of cardboard, 19 tonnes of aluminum, 95 tonnes of plastic and 415 tonnes of paper) recycled through Daventry, leaving a total of 20,419 tonnes to landfill.
The percentage of potential recycling achieved currently at The Capitol each period is shown in the graph below clarifies the need for this objective as does the following statements; taken from a brief sent out to JDW pubs;
The below statement was taken from a brief sent out to JDW pubs
Increases in landfill tax (imposed by the government) mean that annual general waste costs are set to increase by 50% per pub by 2020 if we do not increase our recycling volumes. The landfill tax paid by JDW in 2012 was 1.1 million which works out at £2.5k per pub.
During the financial year 2014/15, the pubs segregated and returned 9,697 tonnes of recyclables to our distribution centre, an increase of 5.7% (524 tonnes) on the previous year. This included 5,623 tonnes of cardboard and paper, 3,299 tonnes of cooking oil, 547 tonnes of plastic, 38 tonnes of aluminium, and 190 tonnes of steel
