A manager at Color Graphics stopped one of the company's
printing presses one day and asked for everyone's attention.
一位 Color Graphics 的經理，停止了公司的印刷機一天並叫大
家注意。
He showed the employees sixteen drums of waste ink and asked,
How long does it take us produce this waste?
他拿出 16 桶廢墨給員工們看並說:我我們花了多少時間在生
產這些廢棄物 ?
Everyone was surprised to learn that they filled the drums in just
one month.
當每個人知道短短一個月就可以裝滿一桶廢墨都感到非常驚
異。
They began looking for ways to reduce the volume of waste.
他們開始尋找各種方法來減少浪費。
They made a lot of changes-just simple low-cost production
changes, but they had a big effect.
他們改變了很多，只是簡單的降低生產成本，但是卻有很大
的變化。
Over five years the company's total liquid waste fell from 1,525
barrels to 991 - a 35 per cent reduction.
接下來的五年內廢液產生量從 1525 桶減少至 99 桶少了 35%。