Lean Produces a Robust Waste Elimination Culture. During the 1980s and 90s, Public Environmental Management agencies have looked to promote pollution prevention through such means as technical assistance, pollution prevention assessment guidance, and pollution prevention planning requirements. Looking across these initiatives, a common theme emerges: to make sustained pollution prevention progress that moves beyond the “low hanging fruit,” a company must create a waste elimination culture. Common elements of such a culture, as identified in agency pollution prevention guidance include: systemic and on-going evaluation of waste that is embraced and implemented by operations personnel; substantial engagement of employees,.
