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Production Waste Management: Case Study

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The environmental friendly production management requires a constant reduction of waste being generated on the shop floor. This can be achieved by improvement of technology and also by higher environmental awareness of the employees. This chapter contains analysis of waste management system in a company from packaging sector. The system includes processes of collection, movement, storage and registration of all waste arising in the enterprise. The work covers organizational and technical aspects of waste management in the company involved in the production of corrugated packaging. Authors present improvements which might lead to the reduction of the production’s waste being generated.

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, Strzelecka 11, 60965, Poznan, Poland

    Paulina Golinska & Pawel Majewski

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  1. Paulina Golinska
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Correspondence to Paulina Golinska .

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, Strzelecka 11, Poznan, 60-965, Poland

    Paulina Golinska

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Golinska, P., Majewski, P. (2013). Production Waste Management: Case Study. In: Golinska, P. (eds) EcoProduction and Logistics. EcoProduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23553-5_7

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