Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
- 3.10.1 Minimizing environmental impact
- Uses equipment, processes, and systems that minimize waste, improve efficiency, and reduce resource use, e.g., reuse and recycle
- Operate with a triple bottom line, emphasizing financial profitability, environmental integrity, and corporate social responsibility
- Understand life cycle analysis: the environmental and economic effects of a product at every stage of its existence, from extraction of materials through production to disposal and beyond
- Suggest and/or implement continuous improvement actions
- Safeguard the public interest
- Ensure equipment and systems are designed to minimize environmental impact
- Seek to upgrade processes beyond pollution control to pollution prevention
- Utilize advances in science and technology to upgrade levels of efficiency and environmental protection
- 3.10.2 Complying with standards, laws, and regulations
- Comply with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and policies related to environmental impact
- Promote sustainable business practices consistent with ISO 14001 International Environmental Management Guidance