Developing Zero Waste Programs:
Supported from the Top to the
Bottom Line
Richard Anthony
Richard Anthony Associates
Orange County Zero Waste Conference
June 8, 2006  Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim CA
Zero Waste
 Zero Waste (efficiency in operations)
 Create Jobs from Discards
 End Welfare for Wasting (level the
playing field, tax reform)
Responsibility
 Consumer Responsibility
(what you buy)
 Producer Responsibility
(What you produce and
how you produce it)
Zero Waste Management
 Up Stream
 Clean Production
 Product Redesign
 Down Stream
 Composting
 Recycling
Reuse, Recycling and Composting
Reuse, Recycle, Compost
Setting Up Zero Waste Programs
1. Get top management on board
2. Examine the current system of discard
management
3. Get everyone involved in making the plan
4. Let every one know what you are doing
1. Get Approval at the Top
 Get top management on board
 Economic savings
 Environmental Savings
 Customer loyalty
 Get a letter from the Company President
2. Examine the Current System for
Discard Management
 Include an initial cost analysis and an ongoing
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monitoring program
Identify barriers to overcome
Examine clean production and product redesign
Examine purchasing and vendor agreements
Re-engineer System Design to maximize
reduction and recovery without incineration and
landfill
Include Education and Staff Training in the plan
Publish the plan and modify it regularly
3. Get Everyone Involved in the
Planning and Implementation
 All levels of employees are asked to identify
wasting at all levels
 All levels are asked to contribute ideas for
elimination of wasting processes or products
 All levels make commitments to make the
new system work
 Vendors are asked to adopt similar standards
4.
Let Everyone Know What is
Happening
 Media
 Staff meetings
 Newsletters
 E-mails
 Annual reports
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Subjects
 Successes and Savings
 What happens to the recyclables'
 Exemplary performances
 New ideas
Given the Go Ahead
 Know what you have and what its worth
 Plan for zero waste
 Ask the employees to help you
 Let everybody know how they are doing
 Tell the world
The Earth is Not Infinite!
Richard Anthony Associates
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