The poetry of waste

One of our clients penned the following poem about waste in their work environment:

Manufacturing is all about production

but too many and then there is more reduction

As time is lost on extra widgets

the warehouse manager will get the fidgets

Inventory is always great,

but not when you have to wait and wait.

So do not polish and do not shine,

if it is a waste of time.

Wasted time and loss of space

When we try to do with haste

So make a plan and think it through

otherwise you will make a blue

Touch it once and this is great

Touch it thrice and you need advice

Sometimes the waste is beyond our reach

but QMI Solutions can fill the breach

Many thanks to Radmila Bowman at Playhard Sports for the contribution.

No-waste circular economy is good business – ask China

From The New Scientist...

Don't throw out that broken toaster: it's key to our prosperity. Redesigning the economy so that all waste is reused or recycled would be good for business, according to two new reports.

For centuries the global economy has been linear. Companies extract resources from the environment, turn them into products and sell them to consumers – who eventually throw them out. As a result we are burning through Earth's natural resources and wasting useful materials.

But it doesn't have to be that way, says Felix Preston of think tank Chatham House in London. Instead, we could have a circular economy in which waste from one product is used in another.

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