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Corporate environmental consulting is actually a business strategy for the future. It helps
us really look at the material inputs, the raw materials we use within our organizations
and the ways of extending the life of those or reducing the amount that we use. It is
very important for companies or entities to always define their metrics upfront to set
boundaries so they can aptly communicate to shareholders or the public their sustainable
performance, change, or impact that they had on the environment. We have different tools
that we can use to help them consolidate their data and then kind of slice it and dice it
for different purposes -- perhaps internal communications, external communications, stockholders,
and other stakeholders. If you look at the terms "zero" "wasting" and flip it, it's actually
"wasting zero" and it's looking at all those materials, things that we would normally throw
away and realizing there is no away. It is important to define what waste is, whether
it's energy waste, whether it's material waste, or some other form of waste. For example,
one of our customers, their definition is 90 percent of diversion from a baseline of
2,007. So, that's an example of how we might apply zero waste. The key to sustainability
is that it cannot be a one-time project. It needs to be driven into the DNA of your organization.
It's a new business strategy; it's the next way of doing business.