"All told, Subaru says 99.8% of the plant's refuse is recycled or
reused so it doesn't go to a landfill. That includes a small portion,
about 5%, that goes to a waste-to-energy plant that burns waste to make
steam to heat Indianapolis' downtown."
Ha!
At a Chrysler assembly plant in Delaware, the union and workers got
excited about a recycling program, then found that what they
collected--or most of it--was being sent to an incinerator....
*Maybe* in this case its only five percent....
am
At 12:14 PM 2/19/2008 -0800, Gary Liss wrote:
Apologies for
Cross-Postings - Please forward to interested colleagues.
From:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/default.htm
'Zero-landfill' movement has corporate types talking
trash
From:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/environment/2008-02-18-green-factories_N.htm
It's waste not, want not at super green Subaru plant
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Subaru's giant assembly plant here is on track to
produce 180,000 cars this year. Yet the automaker pledges that virtually
none of the waste generated from its eye-popping output will wind up in a
dump.
Copper-laden slag left over from welding is collected and shipped to
Spain for recycling. Styrofoam forms encasing delicate engine parts are
returned to Japan for the next round of deliveries. Even small protective
plastic caps are collected in bins to be melted down to make something
else.
All told, Subaru says 99.8% of the plant's refuse is recycled or reused
so it doesn't go to a landfill. That includes a small portion, about 5%,
that goes to a waste-to-energy plant that burns waste to make steam to
heat Indianapolis' downtown.
Subaru is one of a growing number of companies claiming or working toward
"zero landfill" status. While success earns environmental
bragging rights Subaru has TV ads about this plant's efforts reuse
and recycling also cuts costs to the tune of millions of dollars a
year.
More....http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/environment/2008-02-18-green-factories_N.htm
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