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APPENDIX A
APPENDIX A
Pages 31-40
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Companies were asked to describe briefly their environmental programs, including difficulties faced in implementing their programs and how they determine whether a program is successful. The program descriptions are intended to illustrate a range of approaches and perspectives relevant to industry-initiated environmental efforts.
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The goals of the program are to reduce waste to the environment, recognize achievement, enhance waste reduction awareness, measure and track progress, and reduce long-term costs. A team composed of facility-level waste reduction personnel and regional environmental managers select approximately 20 different projects annually from around the United States.
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states that it has a corporate goal to manufacture environmentally responsible telecommunications products and that the product design process should consider all product life stages and all envirorunental interactions. A full life-cycle assessment is not traditionally performed by product design and manufacturing engineers; that could be.
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FORD: MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM The stated intent of Ford's Manufacturing Environmental Leadership Program is to prevent pollution at the early stages of process and product development, to reduce or eliminate the use of materials of concern, to promote and plan for recyclability, to meet or exceed all environmental regulatory requirements, to protect and enhance wildlife habitats at or near company facilities, and to obtain supplier support and involvement in the program. Metrics for environmental success are established as specific strategies are developed.
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The stated goals of Corning's environmental program are to reduce waste and pollution from core manufacturing processes while maintaining or improving product quality. These goals are pursued through materials substitution and by process modification.
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The two most important challenges that Jamestown Paint had to meet were active employee participation and total commitment from management throughout the company. The company plans to continue to work on these challenges using additional training and by highlighting examples set by managers.
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By 1992, the company reported that it had voluntarily reduced the combined amount of various toxics by 43% and had reduced the level of its hazardous waste by 55 % through waste management and minimization while increasing product output by 40%. From 19821 993, the company stated that it reduced accident frequency by 84% and the accident severity rate by 76 %; in addition, Me company has reported reduction of lead in air at process centers by 85% from 1982-1992 and decreased blood lead levels of employees by 70% from 1981-1993.
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