Physical resources
Within physical resources there are many points which must be taken into account to ensure a business is at its peak, these include things such as materials, waste, insurance, equipment including ICT, buildings and facilities, planned maintenance and refurbishment, security, plant and machinery.
These particular resources are what help maintain physically the resources in a business.
Materials
Materials are regularly used within workplaces this is to help encourage new customers from making the shops attractive encouraging customer participation. In every Apple store you walk into will contain Apple products designed to conveniently provide focus on what’s on sale.
Materials within Apple are usually aimed to be environmentally friendly, and encourage that older products are reused. However everything within stores is designed specifically to relate to Apple products the first thing that strikes a visitor is the very white floor and the backlit ceiling. The floor is white epoxy, apparently covered with a clear epoxy layer, giving it the appearance of an iMac G5 case.
A lot of essential materials are needed day to day, these include stationary books, equipment etc. Due to Apples stores make sales a lot of paper work
Waste
Waste is usually produced from large companies, and is unwanted or unusable materials, although this can be inaccurate because some forms of waste may be recyclable therefore can be reused to produce further product.
Apple is determined to be as environmentally friendly as possible they quote “we are constantly developing new ways to conserve the resources we all share.” Over 90 per cent of material they recycle is from products other than our own. Apple has gone to many extents to reduce the amount of waste they produce. By reducing the use of aluminium from each and every product, over the past decade Apple