Lean and Green

Chapter 12Recycle: The Third Best Strategy in the RRR Trilogy

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Any of our customers can send back to us anything LSI sends to them, including packaging materials and semiconductor chips. We see that these materials are easily recyclable.

—Linda Gee, environmental director, LSI Logic

RECYCLING materials is great for Lean and Green—but only if you really needed to buy the materials in the first place and can’t reuse them in their current form. Read why, from both an environmental and a business perspective, recycling is the third choice in the RRR trilogy.

• The environmental perspective Converting a material from one form into another nearly always requires transportation to recycling facilities, energy for the conversion process, and more ...