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GM’s Flint Engine South Plant has become one of the first zero landfill manufacturing facilities in the United States with the help of Goodwill and other partners. The plant has created an initiative to reuse or recycle every bit of waste that is created during the process of manufacturing the engines and other various parts they manufacture for GM.
The first manufacturer in the US to actually reach zero landfill status was Subaru at their Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) Manufacturing Plant in 2006. SIA actually dedicated land to create a designated wildlife habitat for the native deer, coyotes, beavers, blue herons, geese, and other animals so they can live there in peaceful coexistence with the Subaru plant.
These companies aren’t the only businesses that have made great strides and succeeded in creating zero landfill manufacturing plants, but I picked them because they’re part of an industry who is well known for waste. It is my hope that now that they’ve figured out how to create without waste that they will concentrate harder on figuring out how to create products that don’t make waste.
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Jason
April 20th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
SEE I told you Subaru was rockin! lol
would be nice to see a lot more of this from the auto world!
Mikes last blog post..Anyone for some Grub?
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Mike: Subaru is pretty awesome indeed. You know Mike it’d be great to see this kind of effort in all kinds of businesses in all sectors. Business has a way of making people notice and I hope more get to work on being more responsible to the environment. Thanks for coming by!
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