Materials Management Sustainability Principles: Action Checklist
Sustainable materials management requires active (re-)examination of routine purchasing, use and disposal decisions. A sustainable materials management program accounts not only for costs of procurement, but includes all costs associated with operations and maintenance, reuse and recycling, and disposal as well.
A sustainable materials management program starts with four simple questions:
- What is in it? (Components)
- Where is it coming from? (Source)
- How much of it is there? (Usage level)
- Where is it going when we are done using it? (Disposal methods)
This checklist provides basic steps to putting sustainability principles for materials management into action.
The collection, reprocessing, marketing, and use of materials that were diverted or recovered from the solid waste stream.> Download Materials Management Sustainability Principles: Action Checklist
