6. Pollution / Poisoning and Oil leakage
Why do we need
Green Productivity
THE NEED FOR A GREEN PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRAMME
7. • Today most people use 2.2 times
as much water as available
• Abuse of resources
• Coal Extraction Problems (Mining
is destroying the environment
Why do we need
Green Productivity
THE NEED FOR A GREEN PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRAMME
8. • Manage and improve your processes in a sustainable way
such that your Carbon and Water Footprints are reduced.
• Energise your enterprise to have a beneficial impact on the
Greening of the immediate environment/community
• Enable every individual in your enterprise/community to
accept responsibility for acting in a green way at all times.
GREEN PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRAMME
9. Karl Burkart defines a “green economy” as an economy based on
six main focus areas.
• Change processes to minimise the impact on our environment,
by applying principles of:
Renewable energy
Green buildings and equipment
Water management
Waste management
Clean transportation
Land management
VISION FOR GREEN PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRAMME
11. MBUs (Teams business units) can assist their enterprise in
reducing carbon footprint which contributes to global warming
by:
• Starting to measure their carbon footprint.
• Conduct projects to change their manufacturing processes and
resources, to reduce carbon footprint.
• renewable sources of energy / electricity,
• transport
• Measure carbon footprint monthly and keep productivity charts
• Change over from chlorofluorocarbons
12. 2. Individuals and Enterprises involved in coal mining can:
• Rehabilitate the soil / environment.
• Repair your environmental damage.
• Counter acid and heavy metals pollution of ground water and
marsh areas
• Petition coal mining enterprises about pollution and damage
to the environment.
• Combine forces with SASOL, to generate energy and oil /
petrol / diesel via the same processes and sources (i.e. coal).
• Experiment with renewable and 'clean' sources of energy
generation
WHY IMPLEMENT A GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME (Continues)
13. 3. Individuals and Enterprises using oil and petrol can reduce oil/
fuel related carbon footprint and pollution and environment
destruction (suggestions):
• Reduce your fuel carbon footprint (i.e. how to reduce your
MBU's fuel consumption).
• Petition oil refineries / enterprises to deal with oil and fuel
related pollution
• Research about renewable and 'clean' sources of transport,
e.g. electric trucks etc.
• Experiment with buying smaller trucks for transporting
WHY IMPLEMENT A GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME (Continues)
14. 4. You as a user of water can contribute to the solution of your
MBU's and company's water scarcity problems (suggestions):
• Start a Water Footprint or Water Productivity improvement
project:
• Measure your Water Footprint
• Identify core sources / problems of wastage of water
• Reduce water usage / the water footprint to improve your
Water Productivity
• Change processes so that you use less water
• Water Productivity = reducing the amount of water (input)
required to produce a unit of any goods or service (output) )
• Capture your Water Footprint baseline data and monitor
WHY IMPLEMENT A GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME (Continues)
15. 5. Individuals and enterprises can reduce their chemical footprint
or prevent pollution from Chemicals and EDC (suggestions):
• Determine if your enterprise uses EDCs
• Determine if chemical pollution is a reality
• Focus project on preventing EDC pollution
• Reduce EDCs in consumer products
• Learn from Minnesota (Wisconsin) Pollution Control Agency:
• educate employees
• upgrade wastewater plant to remove EDCs
• implement pharmaceutical and chemical collection
• don’t flush chemicals down the drain
WHY IMPLEMENT A GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME (Continues)
16. 6. What can enterprises do about deforestation, wood related
carbon dioxide emissions and careless wastage of precious
wood / paper stocks (suggestions):
• Reduce or counter deforestation.
• Participate in planting trees, (reforestation / afforestation).
(e.g. visit Food and Trees For Africa website:
http://www.waterwise.co.za/site/water/carbon-footprint.html
• Calculate your paper footprint
• Go paperless
• Recycle paper and wood.
WHY IMPLEMENT A GREEN PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRAMME (Continues)
19. 8. What can individuals and enterprises do about coal energy
carbon footprint and coal energy related pollution (suggestions)
• Improve electricity efficiency / reduce electricity usage
• Experiment with renewable and 'clean' sources of energy
generation
• Recycle sulphur and carbon emissions (i.e. air pollution)
• Combine forces with SASOL, to generate energy and oil from
the same sources and processes.
• Rehabilitate soil / environment around coal power stations.
• Rehabilitate environmental damage.
• Recover, recycle coal ash.
WHY IMPLEMENT A GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME (Continues)
21. 1st R = Reduce
• Reduce means reducing waste
• Reduce means reduce materials damage
• Reduce means using less resources
• Reduce means reducing materials
• Reduce means reducing resources for packaging
5R PRINCIPLES OF IMPLEMENTING
GREEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME
22. 2nd R = Reuse
• Reuse means re-using something
• Reuse means repairing an item rather than throwing it out
• Reuse means donating old equipment or appliances
• Reuse means looking for alternative uses
5R PRINCIPLES OF IMPLEMENTING
GREEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME
23. 3rd R = Recycle
• Recycling means that objects / materials that
are considered waste can be turned back into
raw materials to be used in the manufacture
of other items.
• All metals can be recycled, as well as plastic,
paper, rubber, electronics, glass, water, wood
(e.g. even cork!)
5R PRINCIPLES OF IMPLEMENTING
GREEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME
24. 3rd R = Recycle (Continues)
Recycling consists of 4 Steps:
1. Collection, sorting and cleaning.
2. Processing and turning recyclables into useful
raw materials.
3. Manufacturing recycled materials into new
products.
4. Consumers purchase recycled products. Market
products as environmentally friendly
5R PRINCIPLES OF IMPLEMENTING
GREEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME
25. 4th R = Refuse
• Refuse means an enterprise Refuses to include dangerous
chemicals such as EDCs (Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) or
other poisonous stuff such as arsenic, mercury, or lead in their
products.
5R PRINCIPLES OF IMPLEMENTING
GREEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME
26. 5th R = Redesign
Redesign is required when any of the other 4 R’s are
applied.
• Reducing materials or Refuse involves Redesign
• Considering Reuse during Design, requires thinking about
additional product features
• Considering Recycling also leads to Redesign
5R PRINCIPLES OF IMPLEMENTING
GREEN PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMME
27. Sustainability means preserving life on Earth, including human
civilization.
4 Sustainability Principles:
• Reduce our contribution to the build-up of substances
extracted from the earth's crust
• Reduce our contribution to the build-up of chemicals and
compounds
• Reduce our contribution to the physical degradation and
destruction of nature and natural processes
• Reduce our contribution to undermining people's capacity to
meet their basic human needs.
4 SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES
28. 1.Define the Kaizen Project
2.Set Green Kaizen Goal based on prioritisation of green problems
3.Look at the Current Situation and focus on specific problems /
causes to be addressed
4.Uncovering real causes of green problems
5.Formulate Kaizen Plan for solving the green problem based on
steps 3, and 4, and take action to improve the situation
8 STEPS FOR CONDUCTING GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
29. 6. Gather facts and data, before and after to prove the
solution of the problem
7.Measure direct result of green kaizen actions and
measure other effects of green kaizen actions
8. Identify the next Kaizen
8 STEPS FOR CONDUCTING GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
30.
31. HOW TO MANAGE GREEN
PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
PDCA (Ongoing Improvement / Implementing Green Productivity)
Tips / Model Green Workplaces
Tiered Protocol
LED
Rain water harvesting
Solar water heating
Plastic Recycling MODAPTS
Solar Electricity
32. Before
KAIZEN
KP(Kaizen
Plan )
Sheet
Kaizen Goal: Process: Process XXX
No. of members: 6
After
KAIZEN
Problem analysis
Schedule for Next Kaizen
Impact
Kaizen by Process XXX MBU
Reason for selecting Kaizen Goal:
Specific & concrete KAIZEN steps taken
e.g. To reduce Electricity Consumption
at Process XXX from 2.77kWh to 2.0kWh
Step 3:
e.g. Electricity Consumption at process
XXX is a major contributor to the Carbon
footprint
Photo
Step 5:
Step 4:
Step 2:
Step 1:
Step 6:
Step 7:
0.71
0.82
0.39
0.18
0.07
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO
Process XXX Pareto Diagramme (Nov
2013 kWper hour =2,19kW for all
machines ABC to MNO)
1.21
0.82
0.39
0.18
0.07
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO
Process XXX Pareto Diagramme (Aug
2013 kWper hour =2,69kW for all
machines ABC to MNO)
• E.g. Improve energy efficiency of machines DEF and GHI
• Etc
Step 8:
• E.g. Conducted problem solving session to find root cause:
• Machines at Process XXX are 30 years old
• Machines use single phase power
• Electric motors are all conventional heavy duty
• E.g. Analysed electricity consumption graphs of XXX machines to
determine Root Causes of excessive consumption
• E.g. Brainstormed and Formulated actions for eliminating Root
Causes of Exessive electricity consumption
• E.g. Retro fitted Inverter Motor on ABC Machine, at cost of R5000
• E.g. Electricity consumed down 19%
• E.g. Cost of electricity down 19%
• E.g. Capital Productivity improvement = Production output from
100 products ÷1.21 kW = 82 products per hour
to 100 prod ÷ 0.71kW = 140 products per hour = 70% improvement
How?-ManageGreenProductivityProjects
33. CONTACT:
Mr. Pieter De Bruyn
Regional Project Manager (Workplace Challenge Programme)
Email: pieterdb@productivitysa.co.za
Tel: 082 – 454 1845
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Notas del editor
Productivity SA is an organisation for South African businesses, industry and general public, that advises, implements programs, monitors solutions and evaluates progress in order to promote a more competitive South Africa.
Finding ingenuous solutions that would reduce and eliminate the side effects such as pollution, contamination, waste, destruction, poisoning, or damage to the environment while looking at issues from both a human as well as a nature (earth) value perspective.
Extracting resources / mineral / producing products pollution of environment (soil or water or air) reduced usefulness / more waste reduced size of available land and water reduced quality of life (of people and animals).
E.g. Petrol leaking into water borehole
e.g. In Arkansas, USA, oil spilled from oil boreholes. - Suburban homes surrounded by a flood of oil!
Who can raise their kids in such an environment?!
Today most people on earth use 2.2 times as much water and other resources as available, sometimes even using someone else's share!
Today many people and businesses’ lifestyles are such that there will be resources only for a period of 32 years instead of a 70 years lifetime!
Enables your enterprise to manage and improve your processes in a sustainable way such that your Carbon
Renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, marine including wave, biogas, and fuel cell)
Green buildings and equipment (green retrofits for energy and water efficiency; green products and materials, and green construction).
Water management (Water reclamation, greywater and rainwater systems, low-water landscaping, water purification, stormwater management)
Waste management (recycling, municipal solid waste salvage, brownfield land remediation, Superfund cleanup, sustainable packaging)
Clean transportation (alternative fuels, public transport, hybrid and electric vehicles, car sharing and car pooling programs)
Land management (organic agriculture, habitat conservation and restoration; urban forestry and parks, reforestation and afforestation and soil stabilization)
1.9.6 What can we do as MBUs to reduce our enterprise's carbon footprint, contribution to global warming, the hole in the ozone layer……
Start measuring your enterprise's carbon footprint.
Do projects to change your enterprise's carbon emitting lifestyle, / resources, to reduce your carbon footprint e.g. manufacturing processes
The most important 'lifestyle changes' would be to change over to renewable sources of energy / electricity, (e.g. solar power, wind power, solar water heating, LED lighting);
different means of transport for employees as well as transporting products.
Measure carbon footprint monthly and capture input data on productivity charts (e.g. electricity consumption, petrol consumption, etc.)
Do projects to change over from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in production or products to help 'heal' the hole in the ozone layer.
1.9.6 What can we do as MBUs to reduce our enterprise's carbon footprint, contribution to global warming, the hole in the ozone layer……
Start measuring your enterprise's carbon footprint.
Do projects to change your enterprise's carbon emitting lifestyle, / resources, to reduce your carbon footprint e.g. manufacturing processes
The most important 'lifestyle changes' would be to change over to renewable sources of energy / electricity, (e.g. solar power, wind power, solar water heating, LED lighting);
different means of transport for employees as well as transporting products.
Measure carbon footprint monthly and capture input data on productivity charts (e.g. electricity consumption, petrol consumption, etc.)
Do projects to change over from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in production or products to help 'heal' the hole in the ozone layer.
1.3.1.4 What can South African individuals and enterprises involved in coal mining do about coal mining related pollution and environment destruction? Here are a few suggestions:
Research about rehabilitating the soil / environment.
Repair / rehabilitate environmental damage.
Research about countering acid and heavy metals pollution of the ground water and marsh areas caused by coal mining.
Petition coal mining enterprises to deal with pollution and damage to the environment.
Combine forces with organisations such as SASOL, to generate energy and oil / petrol / diesel via the same processes and sources (i.e. coal).
Do research / experiment with renewable and 'clean' sources of energy generation for your factory, e.g. solar cells, solar water heating etc.
1.7.2 Deforestation in other parts of the world
Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; in 2011 they covered only 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years (i.e. by 2050)!
Global deforestation sharply accelerated since 1852. Before then, there were about 15 million to 16 million km2 of rain forest.
From 1947 to 2011, between 7.5 million and 8 million km2 of the Earth's mature tropical forests have been destroyed.
Subsistence farming causes 48% of deforestation; commercial agriculture - 32%; logging - 14%; and fuel wood - 5%
1.7.2 Deforestation in other parts of the world
Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; in 2011 they covered only 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years (i.e. by 2050)!
Global deforestation sharply accelerated since 1852. Before then, there were about 15 million to 16 million km2 of rain forest.
From 1947 to 2011, between 7.5 million and 8 million km2 of the Earth's mature tropical forests have been destroyed.
Subsistence farming causes 48% of deforestation; commercial agriculture - 32%; logging - 14%; and fuel wood - 5%
We would like all MBUs to understand the Basic 5R Principles of Green Productivity! It is one way of starting a Green Productivity Programme in your enterprise.
Reduce = 1st R
Reduce means reducing waste, by quality assurance in production processes.
Reduce means reduce materials damage and waste, by training employees to understand characteristics of materials.
Reduce means using less resources such as water, and energy at work. E.g. installing aerating shower heads in employee facilities to reduce water flow; e.g. change from oil bath welding plants to inverter welding plants.
Reduce means reducing materials for products. E.g. Plastic 2-liter soft drink bottles. (weight of such bottles are 17 grams less than 30 years ago, keeping 114 million tons of plastic out of the waste stream.
Reduce means reducing resources for packaging, e.g. using bubble wrap and corrugated carton, instead of crates from wood.
We would like all MBUs to understand the Basic 5R Principles of Green Productivity! It is one way of starting a Green Productivity Programme in your enterprise.
Reduce = 1st R
Reduce means reducing waste, by quality assurance in production processes.
Reduce means reduce materials damage and waste, by training employees to understand characteristics of materials.
Reduce means using less resources such as water, and energy at work. E.g. installing aerating shower heads in employee facilities to reduce water flow; e.g. change from oil bath welding plants to inverter welding plants.
Reduce means reducing materials for products. E.g. Plastic 2-liter soft drink bottles. (weight of such bottles are 17 grams less than 30 years ago, keeping 114 million tons of plastic out of the waste stream.
Reduce means reducing resources for packaging, e.g. using bubble wrap and corrugated carton, instead of crates from wood.
Reuse = 2nd R
Reuse means re-using something – e.g. returnable glass bottles such as coke empties in the old days!
Reuse means repairing an item rather than throwing it out, usually cheaper than buying a new one!
Reuse means donating old equipment or appliances to another section who can still use it when buying new ones.(E.g. yellow tagging as in the 5 S Toolkit) If nobody wants it inside the enterprise it can usually bring in some money by selling it outside.
Reuse means looking for alternative uses when a product has served its purpose. E.g. a KZN company redesigned their water cooling process by reusing an old but still serviceable electrical motor from another function, and reusing a discarded water pump!
5R (cont’d)
Recycle = 3rd R
Recycling means that objects / materials that are considered waste can be turned back into raw materials to be used in the manufacture of other items.
All metals, (copper, aluminium, steel, platinum, mercury, lead, etc.), can be recycled, as well as plastic, paper, rubber, electronics, glass, water, wood (e.g. even cork!)
5R (cont’d)
Recycle = 3rd R
Recycling consists of 4 Steps:
Collection, sorting and cleaning.
at the waste dump
Or at a central collection facility e.g. Port Elizabeth church based homeless collectors
Processing and turning recyclables into useful raw materials. E.g. paper turned into pulp, or plastics melted down and re-pelletized
Manufacturing recycled materials into new products.
4. Consumers purchase recycled products. They participate in recycling waste, and look for products that contain recycled materials. Alert enterprises market their products as environmentally friendly when manufactured out of recycled materials.
5R (cont’d)
Refuse = 4th R
Refuse means that, out of concern for products' / processes' carbon footprint, or water, chemicals / poison footprint and concern for the well-being of people, an enterprise Refuses to include dangerous chemicals such as EDCs (Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) or other poisonous stuff such as arsenic, mercury, or lead in their products.
Redesign = 5th R
Redesign is required when any of the other 4 Rs are applied.
Reducing materials or Refuse to include dangerous materials involves Redesign of the product or process and equipment needed for manufacturing.
Considering Reuse during Design, requires thinking about additional product features, e.g. drilling and tapping an extra hole for a handle when the product will be given to another user for another purpose; or e.g. adding a socket and computer chip for adjusting the speed of a piece of equipment for a new application, etc.
Considering Recycling also leads to Redesign. E.g.,
car manufacturers mark different kinds of plastics of
parts, to help recyclers 15 years down the line or when
materials needs to be recycled from a smashed car.
We would like your management team to be able to understand the “Natural Step framework” which outlines the system principles /conditions for rebuilding sustainability of human activities.
Sustainability means preserving life on Earth, including human civilization.
There are 4 Sustainability Principles. To become a sustainable enterprise and / or society we must...
….Eliminate / reduce our enterprise's contribution to the increasing build-up of substances extracted from the earth's crust; (i.e. carbon and water footprints; mine dumps; coal ash dumps, etc)
2. ….Eliminate / reduce our enterprise's contribution to the increasing build-up of chemicals and compounds produced by industry; (i.e. pollution, poisoning)
3. ….Eliminate / reduce our enterprise's contribution to the increasing physical degradation and destruction of nature and natural processes; (i.e. shortages, and environmental problems; clearing land; )
4. ….Eliminate / reduce our enterprise's contribution to conditions that undermine people's capacity to meet their basic human needs. (i.e. poor working conditions, human fatigue, meaningless jobs, and lack of skills)