Leveraging an existing team or creating a Green Team to strategize and implement waste reduction activities is a great way to ensure you create goals that are relevant to your organization, important to employees, and realistically achievable. Some tips for pulling together your team include:
Obtain support from management
Recruit members across key departments to bring a variety of perspectives and solutions
Develop a mission statement to define why sustainability is important to the organization
Set regular meetings and develop sustainability priorities to help team members stay focused
Waste reduction is a great first priority for green teams as it is a very hands-on project and something in which all employees can participate