Strategies for building Eco-advantage

Green to Gold points out that, "A great deal of pollution is waste and a function of outmoded production processes or poor product design. So improving the resource productivity of a business - the amount of material or energy needed per unit of output - goes straight to the bottom line." As an efficiency expert myself, it seems to me a great step for any company would be to eliminate waste, both for savings and for functionality, if not to be environmentally responsible. This is one of the ways I see myself fitting into the green field, providing efficiency expertise.  Per our waste audit we're doing at the college, it simply doesn't make any sense to just throw things into the general garbage to be dumped in our landfills, when the material discarded actually has market value. Some places will actually pay the school for these items they are simply throwing out now! Plus, paying less (or nothing?!) for garbage disposal fees taps into the school's bottom line!