The company is aware of the need to minimise waste and utilises pursues this through a variety of targets and methods. Bott products are manufactured to provide a long service life and as a result are not expected to enter the recycling chain as early as many competitor products. Product durability and long service design life are therefore key to our recycling targets, and material specification is a key element in all R&D activities. Waste is an inevitable bi-product of manufacture and whilst every effort is made to eliminate it through design, some waste streams do exist and have to be managed. To this extent Bott adheres to clear recycling policies. Steel scrap is consolidated and sorted on site before being collected and returned to the mills through registered scrap merchants; the same goes for other scrap metal types. Liquid process effluent is treated on site at the rate of 6000l/hr through a fully automated effluent treatment plant and 80% is recycled for re-use. Cardboard and plastic waste streams are consolidated and baled on site and returned on a regular basis to recycling depots. Pallets are increasingly based on Europallet norms and can be reused elsewhere. Domestic waste destined for landfill is crushed and consolidated on site to reduce the number of skip miles. Finally all wastes are only ever disposed of through certified outlets. | 
