Ten Honda facilities in North America achieve zero-waste status
07-15-2011, 02:20 PM
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Ten Honda facilities in North America achieve zero-waste status
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Ten of Honda's 14 manufacturing facilities in North America have achieved zero-waste-to-landfill status, while the remaining four plants are at "virtually zero" waste, according to Honda. Back in 2001, Honda Manufacturing of Alabama became the first zero-waste-to-landfill automotive facility in all of North America and the company has kept up the pace since then.
Honda says waste sent to landfills has been reduced at its facilities in North America from 62.8 pounds per vehicle manufactured in 2001, to an estimated 1.8 pounds per automobile in 2011. Combined, Honda's 14 North American facilities send less than one-half of one percent of all operating waste to landfills. The two remaining landfill waste streams are paper, plastic and food waste from break rooms and cafeterias at Honda's Mexico automobile and motorcycle factories, where there are no environmentally responsible means of disposal; and a byproduct of the paint pretreatment process for aluminum body panels at Honda's East Liberty and Marysville, OH sites. This byproduct, in accordance with EPA regulations, has been deemed non-recyclable.
To thoroughly understand what compromised each facility's push for zero-waste status, Honda employees went "dumpster diving," examining the waste to identify and implement "hundreds" of waste-reduction and waste-recycling initiatives. Sounds like important fun.
Honda isn't the only vehicle manufacturer to get into the zero-waste-to-landfill game. School bus-maker Thomas Built and Subaru are two other examples.
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Ten of Honda's 14 manufacturing facilities in North America have achieved zero-waste-to-landfill status, while the remaining four plants are at "virtually zero" waste, according to Honda. Back in 2001, Honda Manufacturing of Alabama became the first zero-waste-to-landfill automotive facility in all of North America and the company has kept up the pace since then.
Honda says waste sent to landfills has been reduced at its facilities in North America from 62.8 pounds per vehicle manufactured in 2001, to an estimated 1.8 pounds per automobile in 2011. Combined, Honda's 14 North American facilities send less than one-half of one percent of all operating waste to landfills. The two remaining landfill waste streams are paper, plastic and food waste from break rooms and cafeterias at Honda's Mexico automobile and motorcycle factories, where there are no environmentally responsible means of disposal; and a byproduct of the paint pretreatment process for aluminum body panels at Honda's East Liberty and Marysville, OH sites. This byproduct, in accordance with EPA regulations, has been deemed non-recyclable.
To thoroughly understand what compromised each facility's push for zero-waste status, Honda employees went "dumpster diving," examining the waste to identify and implement "hundreds" of waste-reduction and waste-recycling initiatives. Sounds like important fun.
Honda isn't the only vehicle manufacturer to get into the zero-waste-to-landfill game. School bus-maker Thomas Built and Subaru are two other examples.
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Ten Honda facilities in North America achieve zero-waste status originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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