Motor company's headquarters in Canada, the US and Mexico now send no waste to landfill, instead recycling, composting or generating energy from waste material
US carmaker Ford yesterday announced its North American headquarters across the US, Canada and Mexico are now "landfill-free" as part of the company's ongoing efforts to cut waste across its operations.
The headquarters - in Dearborn, Michigan, Oakville, Ontario and Santa Fe, Mexico - are now diverting 240,000 pounds of waste material (109,000kg) to composting, recycling and waste-to-energy facilities, the company said.
"Our global waste strategy commits Ford to reducing waste-to-landfill, and we have made great progress at our headquarters, manufacturing plants, offices and research facilities," Andy Hobbs, director of Ford's Environmental Quality Office, said in a statement. "We are proud of the efforts of our employees worldwide in their commitment to helping Ford reduce its environmental footprint."
Since 2011 Ford has reduced the amount of global waste it sends to landfill by 50 per cent per vehicle, and a total of 59 Ford facilities now send no waste to landfill, including all Canadian and Mexican manufacturing plants.
Alongside implementing recycling and waste-to-energy systems, Ford is also tackling waste by using more recycled materials in the manufacturing process. The latest model of the firm's F-150 pick-up truck features seats made from 100 per cent recycled materials, a move which diverted more than five million plastic bottles from landfill last year, according to Ford.
The news comes in the same week as multinational consumer goods giant Unilever announced it had secured "zero waste" status for 400 more of its sites in the past year, taking the total number of facilities to divert all non hazardous waste from landfill to over 600.
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