The 100 Companies Project Resource Efficient Practice Cases from Producing Industry

Abstract

Initiatives from industry and good corporate examples are required in politics to show how resource efficiency can be improved in industrial production processes. However, companies are usually reluctant to tell their success stories. In the highly industrialised state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a project was carried out to present and analyse 100 concrete examples from companies. The aim was to overcome the barriers to communication about corporate resource efficiency and possible potentials for cost saving. To this end, it was necessary to consider the different objectives of the actors. It can be inferred that from the perspective of a company—i.e., an economic perspective—resource efficiency is perceived as a strategy to help to save costs.