Proving Yourself in a Sustainable World

SpearEARTH represents Spear's global corporate program that addresses source reduction, recycling, eco-friendly materials, processing, supply chain involvement, and external validation. It comprises a team of employees with cross-functional representation that includes all of Spear's operations from all its facilities: the director of quality, the director of Lean Six Sigma, the director of marketing, and representatives from different areas of responsibility in each plant. "And what we do," says Muenzer, "is share best practices. We focus on products, processes, recycling, etc. Some of them are internal and some of them are external. We work with the entire supply chain. We take it to our suppliers and our customers. So, it is literally a cradle-to-cradle or cradle-to-grave approach."