Effective Business Management
When businesses build efficiency and reduce waste they increase profits!
The other thing they do, if they look at their waste systematically and at their other environmental risks, is that they also improve their environmental management.
Building environmental management systems that are based on a thorough preliminary audit do increase profit - it is a fact. It is also overlaps with Kaizen or Lean Thinking which aims to reduce waste/
Some green groups see increasing profits as bad but the reality is that unless a business is profitable it cannot afford to take any new initiatives and won’t be able to make the changes needed to reduce their environmental impacts.
I have had twin passions for many years - one is to hand my grandchildren a good place to live with minimal problems and the other is to let as many people as possible know about the very real benefits of using systems.
Fortunately the solution to both is the same. As more businesses build effective environmental management systems our global situation will improve. Our job is to give them the message that being green can be easy.
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