insider tips on leading a zero-waste initiative

Insider Tips on Leading a

Zero-waste Initiative

Joanne Gorski, SCOR-P, CFPIM,

CSCP, President of Sustainable

Insights

Steven Dunn, Ph.D., CPIM, Professor

of Sustainable Enterprise

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Insider Tips on Leading a Zero-Waste Initiative

Zero-waste initiatives have been around

forever

“There is no such thing as waste” ~ Leonardo

Da Vinci

(1452 – 1519)

Lean is now up to 8 wastes

So… are you at zero-waste?

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What is waste? Can you name all 8?

1. Waiting*

2. Motion*

3. Non-used talent*

4. Over-processing*

5. Inventory

6. Transportation

7. Defects

8. Over production

All these wastes are managed throughout the supply

chain!

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Session Overview

− Explain the steps to zero-waste using the continuous

improvement framework

− Discuss current strategies and barriers

− Identify three things that you will do when you return to

work

− Share insider tips to zero-waste

− Questions and answers

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Step 1: Set a vision and scope

− Why create the business case (vision) for zero-waste

• Driving business reasons

• Customer driven?

• Cost reduction?

• Reduce business risks?

• “So why not zero-waste?

− Define your zero-waste scope

• Zero manufacturing waste?

• Pre or post-consumer waste?

• Hazardous waste included?

• Event-related waste?

− Needs to link to your organization’s sustainability plan and

business strategy ---- Do you know what they say?

Plan

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Step 2: Get management buy-in

− Ensure support

− Align and gain needed resources

− Identify and mitigate any issues

− Kotter’s 8 step change management process

− PMI’s project management methodology

− Management buy-in is a critical step!

Plan

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Step 2: Get management buy-in

− Kotter’s 8 Steps to Accelerate Change in 2015

1. CREATE sense of urgency

2. BUILD guiding coalition

3. FORM strategic vision and initiatives

4. ENLIST volunteer army

5. ENABLE action by removing barriers

6. GENERATE short-term wins

7. SUSTAIN acceleration

8. INSTITUTE change

− Change is difficult…. Be prepared….Do not skip a

step

Plan

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Step 3: Create your project team

− Project champion

− Engaged team members

− Executive sponsor

− Select individuals strategically from needed departments

− Consider education, experiences, aptitudes, leadership

− Having an engaged and adaptive project team is

essential!

Plan

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Step 3: Create your project team

HS.0160 Waste Management SCOR® framework skills

Plan

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Step 4: Access current performance

− Conduct waste audit

− Identify “easy” waste to divert

− Identify top sources of landfill (80/20 analysis)

− Identify barriers and opportunities to achieving higher waste

diversion

Plan

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Step 4: Access current performance Plan

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Step 4: Access current performance

Accenture research shows that leading organizations are

now adopting circular economy models—decoupling growth

from scarce resources and, thus, gaining a competitive

edge (a circular advantage).

Plan

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Step 4: Access current performance Plan

Break Out – 5 minutes

Answer the following questions:

What are your current struggles?

What are your current barriers?

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Overcoming barriers service example:

New North Summit

− 2014 Waste diversion of 93.9% - Zero waste event!

Plan

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Step 5: Set future goals

− What does success look like?

− What needs to happen to improve waste diversion?

• Sustainable purchasing policy?

• Apply the waste hierarchy

• Supply chain and operations management applications

• Education

• Identify salvage markets for process by-products

• Returnable/reusable packaging

• Change materials to a environmentally friendly alternative

Plan

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Let’s talk about salvage markets and difficult waste

Scrapindex.com

Sort, bail, compact, be careful of shipping costs

Establish good relations with the scrap dealers and recyclers

Outagamie County offers free business assistance – check your MRF

American Chemistry Council provides content analysis to see if waste

can be recycled

Line item focus on waste hauling/landfill contracts and volumes

Good use of an intern!

Plan

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Goodwill NCW examples:

Plan

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Menasha Corporation example:

− Die boards made up 20% of all landfilled waste

− Die boards are hard to recycle due to mix of steels blades, foam

and rubber blocks, and chemically treated wood

− OPS manually removes the foam, rubber, and steel materials

from the die boards

− The die boards are then chipped up into mulch

and the steel and rubber materials are

recycled

Plan

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Step 6: Create project plan

− Organizational plan

− Team charter

− Objectives, targets, measures

− Financials: ROI, Total Cost to Serve, Return of SC Fixed Assets,

Return of Working Capital, COGS, Production Costs, etc.

− Solid project management (PMI framework is good)

− Communication strategy

− “One more use” – Goodwill NCW

− “Zero-waste mindset” - Unilever

− Include fun – slogans, pictures, celebrations –

engage people

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Step 7: Collaborate

− Who can help you overcome your barriers?

• Colleges

• Internships

• NGO’s

• Industry groups - like www.apics.org

• Consortiums

• Waste hauler

− Strategically picking the right collaborators is

critical!

Plan

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Step 7: Collaborate

− Ministry Health Care and Practice Greenhealth

− Surgical blue wrap is comprised of polypropylene aka #5 plastics.

− They have been recycling this locally since 2012

Plan

Break Out – 5 minutes

Answer the following questions:

What three things will you do

after you return to work?

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Step 8: Implement Plan

− Just do it!

• Plan for the unexpected

• Clear your calendar and observe and direct

• Continue to educate and problem-solve

Do

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Step 9: Review results

How did you do?

Gather feedback

What needs changed?

Celebrate your accomplishments!

Check

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Step 10: Revise, improve and create best practices

Keep the momentum going

Set bigger goals

− Product/Service design

− Suppliers

− Internal processes

− Customers

“We have the responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only

home.” ~ The Dalai Lama

Act

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Step 10: Revise, improve, and create best practices

Kimberly-Clark shares best practices in scrap material

sorting and sales, identifying material reuse and recycling

opportunities within operations and supply chain, and

developing relationships with outside recyclers.

Oshkosh Corporation has a sustainability council, which

has representation of top management for several key

functions and includes an outside member from the local

university.

Act

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Step 10: Revise, improve, and create best practices

The SCOR® framework includes Green SCOR – an

environmental accounting framework which identifies

specifically what process the environmental wastes are created

(Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return):

− Carbon emissions

− Air pollutant emissions

− Liquid waste generated

− Solid waste generated

− % recycled waste

Act

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Summary tips:

Answer the business question “So why not zero-

waste?”

Management buy-in is critical step

Having an engaged and adaptive project team is

essential

Include fun – slogans, pictures, celebrations – engage

people

Strategically pick the right collaborators

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

~ African proverb

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Contact Information:

− Joanne Gorski, SCOR-P, CFPIM, CSCP, President of Sustainable

Insights LLC

− [email protected]

− 920-915-6578

− Steve Dunn, PhD. CPIM, Professor of Sustainable Enterprise

− [email protected]

− 920-539-8830

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