Blueson Industries manufactures plastic bottles for the food industry. On average, Blueson pays $95 per ton for
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Blueson Industries manufactures plastic bottles for the food industry. On average, Blueson pays $95 per ton for its plastics. Blueson's waste disposal company has increased its waste disposal charge to $65 per ton for solid and inert waste. Blueson generates a total of 1,000 tons of waste per month.
Blueson's managers have been evaluating the production processes for areas to cut waste. In the process of making plastic bottles, a certain amount of machine "drool" occurs. Machine drool is the excess plastic that "drips" off the machine between bolds. In the past, Blueson has discarded the machine drool. In an average month, 300 tons of machine drool are generated.
Management has arrived at three possible courses of action for the machine drool issue:
1. Do nothing and pay the increase waste disposal charge.
2. Sell the machine drool waste to a local recycler for $20 per ton.
3. Re-engineer the production process at an annual cost of $120,000. This change in the production process would cause the amount of machine drool generated to be reduced by 50% each month. The remaining machine drool would then be sold to a local recycler for $20 per ton.
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1. What is the annual cost of the machine drool currently? Include both the original plastics cost and the waste disposal cost.
2. How much would the company save per year (net) if the machine drool were to be sold at the local recycler?
3. How much would the company save per year (net) if the production process were to be re-engineered?
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