![]() ![]() The results attributed to environmental management, pollution prevention (P2), and environmental sustainability initiatives are impressive. Environmental professionals have enabled this transition. Focus on end-of-pipe clean-up and regulatory compliance has expanded to preventing pollution at its source and considering broader environmental sustainability objectives in organizational decisions. The challenge, and opportunity, for environmental professionals is to productively engage with Lean and Six Sigma practitioners-meeting them where they are to translate environmental opportunities and concepts into the Lean and Six Sigma lexicon and to make environmental improvement a seamless, integrated aspect of delivering value to meet customers’ needs.Äramatic progress has been made during the past twenty years in commercial and industrial sector environmental management. ![]() The chapter explores how connecting Lean and Six Sigma process improvement efforts with environmental initiatives can advance both efforts, delivering environmental and sustainability results faster. This chapter discusses this trend and explores why environmental professionals might want to learn more about and connect with Lean and Six Sigma initiatives. A growing number of environmental professionals see an exciting opportunity to leverage this trend to achieve better environmental results more quickly. Over the past few years, many environmental professionals have watched the rapid expansion of Lean and Six Sigma activities sweeping across diverse commercial and manufacturing sectors. ![]()
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