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Key Steps: Creating Green Teams in Your Facility
In today's economic recession, companies are under tremendous pressure to provide products and services at the lowest possible cost. How can companies remain competitive and reduce their impacts on our environment? Many companies are finding that Pollution Prevention, also known as Lean Manufacturing can not only help lessen their impacts on the environment, but is simply smart business.
Implementing a pollution prevention program requires an upfront commitment and long-term follow through. By forming a Green Team at your facility, your company will make an important first step towards evaluating current programs, creating facility-wide environmental goals and an action plan to implement those goals.
The following steps will provide the framework to create a Green Team and implement a pollution prevention program at your facility:
Step 1: Developing a Strategy for Winning Senior Leadership Support
Step 2: Selecting Green Team Members
Step 3: Establishing a Green Team Mission Statement
Step 5: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement, Prioritizing Efforts, and Setting Goals
Step 6: Developing an Action Plan
Step 7: Determining a Strategy for Tracking, Evaluating, and Reporting a Team's Progress
Step 8: Initiating an Education and Awareness Effort
Step 9: Launching Your Program
Contact Paul Harding (801-536-4108) or Frances Bernards (801-536-0086) for further information on the content of this page.
