intelex top 5 environmental statistics - sustainable manufacturing (infographic)
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Sustainable manufacturing helps companies save money, enhance competitiveness, and reduce environmental, health and safety impacts. Many small manufacturers realize financial & environmental benefits from sustainable business practices. Try Intelex’s Sustainability Performance Indicators (SPI) software to help you report, track and analyze essential environmental data: http://bit.ly/1g0zKhxTRANSCRIPT
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P R E S E N T E D B YSOURCES:
http://www.nacfam.org/PolicyInitiatives/SustainableManufacturing/tabid/64/Default.aspxhttp://www.epa.gov/sustainablemanufacturing/business-case.htm\Kiron, et al., Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point, MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 53, No. 2, Winter 2012, pp. 69-74http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/07/17/sustainable-manufacturing-can-boost-profits-15-22bn-annually/http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2013/09/12/sustainable-manufacturing-is-shaping-americas-industrial-future/
JUNE 2014 Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainable manufacturinghelps companies to
Sustainable manufacturingmeets the needs of the presentwithout compromising the abilityof future generations tomeet their own needs
save money
enhance competitiveness
reduce environmental,health and safety impacts
According to a recent survey
two-thirds of nearly 3,000company officials surveyed
responded that
sustainability wascritically importantto being competitivein today’s marketplace
Many large US businesses that already created teams to address sustainability
also have begun to differentiatethemselves by working withsustainability leaders within their supplier baseSmall businesses often considered critical suppliersto many large and well-known sustainability leaders
UK manufacturers can
increase profits £10 billion a year
while cutting carbon emissions 24% by shrinking their environmental footprint and improving resource efficiency
according to a study released by Next Manufacturing Revolution in 2013