Elements of Pollution Prevention Success: Coupling Management Structure with Alternative Technologies

摘要

Successful pollution prevention requires a corporate management structure that manages both internal and external environmental activities. Internal activities, such as production unit optimization and product changes, require an organization-wide commitment. Meanwhile, external supply chain issues that should be managed include working with vendors to reduce toxicity of chemical process help to discover solutions outside the firm. Lightolier, in Fall River, Massachusetts, has a corporate management structure that allows the company to achieve excellent environmental performance through pollution prevention while improving their economic performance as well.