1. The first step is to gain the commitment of the key parties in your organisation. Commitment at the CEO or Board level is crucial, but this commitment must be gained at all levels in the organisation to be successful.

2. Following this is it necessary to do an initial review of your businesses operations to uncover the key issues that will have to be addressed and to establish baseline data against which to measure progress.

3. The next step is to analyse the data gathered during the review to establish likely priorities.

4. This is followed by a process of generating a series of initiatives that could meet the objectives established by the analysis.

5. The initiatives are then prioritised and implemented.

6 Finally the Zero Waste initiatives need to be monitored and reviewed to establish their effectiveness and to chart progress.

A number of organisations that can assist companies in their continuous improvement process are listed in the Resources section of this website.