| Becoming a Green Company is a noble cause, and | | | | 1. Setting up their own Sustainability Team |
| one not easily achieved. | | | | 2. Creating a Sustainability Vision for their plant site. |
| Even yet today, few companies have gone this far. | | | | Day 2 these companies worked on these deadly |
| Not harming the environment is NOT the same as | | | | environmental wastes and measures for them: |
| protecting the environment at all costs. | | | | 1. Energy (electricity, natural gas, petroleum, etc) |
| Several companies recently got started with their | | | | 2. Environmental (air, soil, water) |
| own green strategies. These companies represent a | | | | 3. Materials |
| cross-section of industries including: paper | | | | 4. Water |
| manufacturing, magnetics manufacturing, heavy | | | | 5. Garbage (landfill) |
| transportation (trains), and food manufacturing. Three | | | | 6. Transportation |
| major sources of key technical and business | | | | 7. Biological |
| information were used: | | | | And they worked on seeing how the 8 Lean Wastes |
| 1. The US Environmental Protection Agency "Lean | | | | of Defects, Overproduction, Transportation, Waiting, |
| Environmental Toolkit" | | | | Inventory, Motion, Extra Processing, and Underutilized |
| 2. Wal-Mart's Sustainability Strategy 2005 & 2010 | | | | People contribute directly to the environmental |
| Report on Sustainability | | | | wastes. Plus they set up measures for each of the |
| 3. Value Stream Mapping & waste elimination | | | | environmental wastes. |
| 4. Brett Wills' book "Green Intentions" | | | | Next, each company completed Environmental Value |
| The initial focus was on generating lean environmental | | | | Stream Mapping and created a Current State plus a |
| thinking as well as looking at what other leading | | | | Future State Value Stream Map with each of the 7 |
| environmental companies are doing. A SME (Society | | | | Environmental Wastes on a "timeline". |
| for Manufacturing Excellence) video about Suburau's | | | | Finally, to complete this work of just getting started |
| plant in Indiana was used to illustrate key points for | | | | with sustainability, they established an implementation |
| managing environmental waste, including their "Zero | | | | plan with Kaizens as the methodology to use to get |
| Landfill" initiative. Coming out of day one these | | | | to their future states. |
| companies committed to: | | | | |