Environmental justice activists also emphasize the need for waste reduction in general, which would act to reduce the overall burden.

Obtain support - the help and commitment of everyone in your business, including senior management, is essential for effective waste reduction.

Often small changes to a design can bring large waste reductions and, therefore, cost savings.

It is important to have buy-in by all contractors to your waste reduction initiatives.

The examples, however, showed how profitable and effective waste reduction can be.

Taylor has reduced its costs by $20,000 through waste reduction and $80,000 through energy conservation efforts.

Numbers not only give managers a better sense of their company's impact on the environment; they provide a baseline against which to judge waste reduction.

Making a commitment at a high level within your business sends a clear message to each contractor that you take waste reduction seriously.

There is little interest, however, in waste reduction at its source and much opposition from special-interest groups.

The final compromise does not have a legally binding target for waste reduction.