Ideas welcome here.
After noticing the mounds of cardboard piled high for trash pick-up at General Motors' Lordstown assembly plant, a planner in the material department suggested the boxes and packing materials be recycled. Not only did planner John Schuller's idea reduce the amount of waste buried in a landfill, it earned him a substantial cash award and generated a steady flow of cash for the automaker. The trash company pays GM 25 percent of what it sells the material for and the automaker pays Schuller 20 percent of the savings his idea generates in the first year. Schuller's idea is one of thousands employees have offered to reduce waste, save material or labor, improve safety, reduce costs, or improve product quality. This year alone, Lordstown assembly plant workers have submitted 1,341 suggestions.