Cleaner Production - Pre-treatment Process Allows
for the Recovery of
Waste Products - Goulburn Wool
Scour
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Amid the recession
of the late 1980s, Goulburn Wool Scour achieved industry leadership by
adopting a management philosophy based on the three R’s - reduce, reuse
and recycle. Cleaner production measures, including a pre-treatment
process that allows the recovery of waste products for sale or use in the
property, have improved product quality, cut costs and changed the plant
from an environmental problem into a business and environmental standard
bearer. The measures have had a typical payback period of less than two
years.
Goulburn Wool Scour was so successful that it was chosen
to scour the golden fleece, the most expensive bale of wool ever
produced. GWS is showing that Australia doesn’t have to become a dumping
ground for environmentally dubious factories in order to attract
investment in this value-adding industry. Rather, it has shown that
Australia can compete by playing to its natural advantages in wool
production, and by being better at adding value than the competition. GWS
is a model for internationally competitive industry in rural
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