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.

Author: Marc Jensen
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 09/23/2014
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781482253177

About the Author

Marc Jensen is director of the University of Oklahoma (OU) Lean Institute in the College of Continuing Education where he teaches, coaches, develops materials, and administers programs. He specializes in applying Lean techniques to environmental sustainability and conservation efforts, driving environmentally conscious economic growth. Jensen earned his Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification in 2009. He serves broadly in an advisory capacity on conservation, sitting on several internal OU committees, and as a board member of the Oklahoma Recycling Association. In addition to his work in Lean, Jensen teaches as an adjunct in the music departments for both OU and the University of Indiana.