Parktopia’s First Recycling Program
Supply Chain Department
Parktopia

Executive Summary

Situation

In recent years, St. George has been plagued with a landfill scarcity crisis. Growing environmental negligence has caused this scarcity. Parktopia produces 15% of all total waste in St. George, making us the largest waste producer in the area. We need to take responsibility and help solve our city’s landfill scarcity problem.

Methodology

We used a framework called MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive). MECE allows us to find problems that are relevant towards our situation. The methodology allowed us to identify three areas of research that influence the solution that solves our problem; these three spheres of research are cost, community, and competition.

Research

The first sphere of research is about cost. We identified that the largest increasing cost in Parktopia is the trash disposal cost. The second sphere of research, which dealt with community, identified that our community is burdened by the increasing trash disposal cost and landfill scarcity. The last sphere of research identified that recycling programs are helping our competition reduce costs.

Solution

The solution that solves all three spheres of research is a recycling program. Our recycling program includes 100 plastic and 100 paper containers, along with formal employee training. The proposed start date is January 1, 2015.

Introduction

Since 1954, Parktopia has served as one of the leading amusement parks in the Midwest. The park was built in St. George because of the city’s support and financial backing. Our park is visited by millions of people every year, which makes us number one attraction in St George. Because of the city’s generosity, we have become a successful theme park. Unfortunately, our presence is doing more harm than good because