Lean Waste Stream : Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles

The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pinpoint and eliminate those inefficiencies. Lean Waste Stream : Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles supplies an unprecedented look at how to address business waste in a manner that will improve your organization’s environmental and financial performance.

Tackling the problem of business garbage from a Lean perspective, the book maintains a focus on how to minimize garbage in ways that cut costs. It considers the problem of garbage in terms of transportation, inventory, and labor costs—with an effort to connect reductions in garbage production at all stages with lower operating costs and improved productivity.

Explaining how to use garbage analysis as a tool to identify the problems in process flow that produced the garbage, this book describes how to look downstream for options to reuse, repurpose, and recycle garbage to minimize landfill impact and costs. The text includes practical exercises with step-by-step instructions, as well as real-world examples that illustrate how specific wastes have been dealt with profitably by various organizations.

Introduction
About the Author

Chapter 1 : The Garbage Can
Chapter 2 : Getting Rid of Our Waste
Chapter 3 : Garbage Auditing
Chapter 4 : Interrogating the Garbage
Chapter 5 : Making Improvements
Chapter 6 : Effective Recycling Programs
Chapter 7 : Composting Programs and Organics
Chapter 8 : Transportation and Storage of Garbage
Chapter 9 : Reuse and Repurposing
Chapter 10 : Waste Prevention through Design
Chapter 11 : Paperwork Reduction
Chapter 12 : Regulated Waste Segregation
Chapter 13 : Afterword : Maybe Don’t Call It Green

Appendix A : Conducting a Garbage Audit at the University of Oklahoma
Appendix B : Norman, Oklahoma, Municipal Compost Facility
Appendix C : Regulated Medical Waste at St. John Medical Center
Index

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