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The guide to Green manufacturing
Training can help make sure your staff members know where the recycling bins are and what items are able to be recycled and what the overall green manufacturing plan is. Manufacturers can start going green with their products by looking at each one of them individually and deciding how they can re-design them.Manufacturers are also finding ways to build their products with natural materials and look for machines that produce less waste. Companies should realize that while it will take an initial investment on you're their part to start going green, once they make the investment, they will start to see immediate results. Green manufacturing experts recommend that when looking at any product, manufacturers should use the three life cycles to design them. The three life cycles simply means you are designing a product for re-use. Green products can be recycled and used again in the future. Or if perhaps if the product is not recyclable, it can be used for many years. Instead of creating a new product, manufacturers can consider releasing additions or updates to the product. In order to really be a green product once the product has gone through its life cycle, it needs to have at least some parts that can be recycled. Many manufacturers are trying to develop products so at least some of the parts can be recycled. The other part of the three life cycles includes developing a product that can be interchangeable with others. This means the parts that are included in one product can be used in another product. This way instead of customers tossing two products, they only are tossing one and using the parts from the broken one to keep the other product working. Manufacturers who are making an effort to go green are also making it a priority to only purchase raw materials from green suppliers.This way they know that from beginning to end their product is green.
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