Auto Industry -- Drivers For Change

• Cost Savings / Competitive Pressures

  • Japan: "Green is Lean"; waste = inefficiency
  • Reduction in energy usage; resource conservation

• External Pressures (government, NGOs)

  • Government purchases based (in part) on environmental impact
  • EPA
  • CAFE

• Customer requirements

• Doing what is right -- corporate citizenship

• Product Disposal and Take Back Issues