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Most companies that have been doing P2 for some time will
concur that as you move forward you come to a point of diminishing returns on
investments. The biggest bang for the buck is low hanging fruit -
these are usually identified during the first or second P2
assessment. It also follows the 80:20 rule (80 percent of reductions
will come from 20 percent of the activities).
Once achieved, remaining reductions may not have the necessary
economic/regulatory drivers to be on the right side of the economic curve to
pursue.
We found this to be true with our P2 pilot program at LCRA -
today most facilities are CESQG and the cost to completely eliminate the
remaining hazardous waste far outweighs the cost of
incineration.
Mark L Johnson, REM.
Senior Environmental Coordinator Lower Colorado River Authority Email: mark.johnson@lcra.org Phone (512) 473- 3200 ext 2868 Fax: (512) 473-3579 Fax (512) 473-3579 >>> "Butner, R Scott" <scott.butner@pnl.gov> 07/08/02 12:04PM >>> P2TECHIES -- Apologies for the cross-post. Hope you had a bang-up 4th of July. I returned to work today to find an inquiry from a co-worker, who was wondering if I was aware of any publications which document (or refute) the concept of diminishing returns on P2 program effectiveness. Specifically, what impact does repetition of a training or assessment process have on its efficacy? Does a training workshop add as much value the 3rd or 4th time it's been repeated, as it has on it's first instance? Does a second P2 opportunity assessment typically return as much insight or value to the firm as the first one did? Intuition tells us that there is in fact a fall-off in value as these sorts of activities are repeated. But I wonder if intuition might be wrong in this case? I would be appreciative of any pointers to publications documenting quantitative research on this or related topics, which I could pass along to my co-worker. Your help in making me appear smarter and better read than I really am will certainly accrue to your karmic account. Given the current market situation, it may be a rare opportunity to for account balances to grow over the short term! cheers, Scott Butner (scott.butner@pnl.gov) Senior Research Scientist, Data & Knowledge Engineering Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory MSIN K7-28 PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352 (509)-372-4946 voice/(509)-375-2443 fax ChemAlliance: http://www.chemalliance.org/ Environmental Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse: http://www.epa.gov/clearinghouse/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * p2tech is hosted by the Great Lakes Information Network: http://www.great-lakes.net To unsubscribe from this list: send mail to majordomo@great-lakes.net with the command 'unsubscribe p2tech' in the body of your message. No quotes or subject line are required. About : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/p2tech/p2tech.info * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * |