US Expert Honored For Waste Reduction Crusade.Boston, U.S.A., Sept 6, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - A process improvement specialist from Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New , USA, has been honored by the leading association of pollution prevention practitioners for his 25-year efforts to encourage organizations to reduce their impacts on the environment. Dr. Robert Pojasek, Principal Consultant with SAI Global Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. NA, has been named the 2006 "Pollution Prevention Champion." The annual award will be issued on September 19, 2006, during "Pollution Prevention Week" in Washington, D.C. USA. His passion for pollution prevention and cleaner technology began at a young age and according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dr Pojasek: "I am really honored to be recognized by the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable for my work in this very important area. The US toxics release inventory The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available database from the EPA that contains information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities. (2001 data) reported that approximately 25,000 industrial facilities released a little over 6 billion pounds of listed pollutants to the air, water and land. Clearly, we still have a long way to go." "The reduction of production losses to the environment is fundamental to good business," said Dr. Pojasek. "Recycling and reuse isn't enough any more, we need to prevent pollution at its source through the use of cleaner production methods." "By using quality management methods and tools, it is possible for employees to prepare formal action plans to change the process so that waste is eliminated at the source, which means you do not generate the toxic pollutants and other wastes in the first place. This bottom-up approach works well with the more traditional 'top-down' management approach." Dr. Pojasek has been working in the field of pollution prevention since 1981; his experiences culminated in a publication for the US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and entitled, "An Organizational Guide for Pollution Prevention." He has also written a book entitled, "Making the Business Case for Environment, Health and Safety" (BLR BLR Belarus BLR Business & Legal Reports BLR Boiler BLR Broad-Line Region BLR Base Lending Rate BLR Binary Language Representation BLR Bintan Lagoon Resort (Indonesia) BLR Bangalore, India - Hindustan Publishers, Old Saybrook, CT USA). Dr. Pojasek is currently working with SAI Global, writing a new Business Excellence framework (BE 50000) that will allow businesses to improve their practices and lower their overall impact on the environment while improving occupational health and safety and the quality of their products and services. About SAI GLOBAL LIMITED SAI Global (ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange : SAI) is one of the world's leading applied information services See Information Systems. companies which works with organizations to provide the framework, directions, support and systems which enable you to improve your organization. SAI Global offers a range of services designed to help organizations manage risk, achieve compliance and drive business improvement. For further information about how SAI Global helps organizations succeed in the global marketplace please inquire. www.saiglobal.com Source: SAI GLOBAL LIMITED Contact: Media Inquiries Tom Godfrey SAI Global tom.godfrey@sai-global.com Copyright [c] 2006 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Japan Corporate News Network K.K. |
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