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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Industrial Engineering Volume 2013, Article ID 298103, 17 pages /10.1155/2013/298103 Research Article Environmentally Lean Production: The Development and Incorporation of an Environmental Impact Index into Value Stream Mapping T. J. Roosen and D. J. Pons Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand Correspondence should be addressed to D. J. Pons; dirk.pons@canterbury.ac.nz Received 7 December 2012; Accepted 16 February 2013 Academic Editor: Gabor Szederkenyi Copyright 漏 2013 T. J. Roosen and D. J. Pons. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. here is a need to include environmental waste alongside other lean wastes. Current concepts of environmental waste focus on the total production of waste from a plant. However waste is generated by individual processes within the production. herefore focused management of waste requires engineers to know what and where waste is being generated. his is oten simply not known with any accuracy. his work ofer a solution by developing a method to integrate environmental waste into the lean method of Value Stream Mapping (VSM). Speciically it integrate corporate environmental standards with the VSM process, thereby permitting established lean improvement process to be focused at speciic environmental improvement actions. Application of the method is demonstrated in a manufacturing setting, representing a variety of environmental impacts. he deployment is capable of being generalised to any number of environmental factors. It is able to represent a customise