ABSTRACT
How concerned is business about the waste it produces? Most seem to think that producing waste is an inevitable, but non-value adding, part of doing business. Traditionally, much discussion has centered on the importance of improving industry’s intended outputs (products and services), while little dialogue has focused on minimizing or finding new uses for the undesirable waste byproducts of industry. This lack of attention may be due to the fact that reducing or eliminating solid, liquid, or gaseous waste streams requires a significant change in the way we think about and conduct business. The re-emerging environmental movement of the 1990s has many managers rethinking the impact their activities have on the environment.
