Our product is stuffed with the waste materials of other products Kimberly-Clark produces, mostly spunbound facing. How much per pound would it cost to acquire this waste material?
We caution that it isn’t necessarily a good idea to make one product rely on the waste of a second product. Unless the waste stream is very continuous and reliable, you need processing and storage facilities to work around periodic shutdowns. You also have a hidden cost that shows up in the other product (the waste). Think about what happens to your product cost when the waste producing product suddenly becomes more efficient, or a product design change makes the waste material a different composition or size, or if a waste converter suddenly offers the waste producing line some money for their scrap? Converting waste material into products often works better on a large scale where the supply variation is minimized and a centralized storage facility can be cost justified. It also helps force each product to quantify (and minimize) the waste. When waste is reintroduced quickly and directly back into a process, there is a tendency to get complacent about it and waste increases. This is a
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