Proving Yourself in a Sustainable World

Measured results

Spear quantifies its programs via lean six sigma and works with external companies to validate what it does. In the UK, it works with the Carbon Trust and in the U.S. the Carbon Disclosure Project to convert all of its numbers back into tons of CO2. It also uses greenhouse gas protocol standards to determine carbon footprint. "So at the end of the day, through all of our programs, we have been able to eliminate, on an annual basis, more than 10 million tons of waste from the landfill," asserts Muenzer. "And right now, we're [eliminating], on an annual basis, a little more than 8,200 tons of CO2 emissions.