Internet giant Google yesterday set a major new target to eradicate landfill waste from all of its data centres.
Google defines zero waste to landfill as diverting all of its waste away from landfill to a more sustainable pathway, with no more than 10 per cent of waste going to a waste-to-energy facility unless Google can prove that is the most sustainable option for it.
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While Google said six of its 14 data centres are already zero waste, some of these are currently diverting more than 10 per cent of their waste to waste-to-energy plants. Overall, 86 per cent of the waste from Google's data centre operations is currently diverted from landfill.
In a blog post Google's vice president of global operations Jim Miller said bringing this figure down to zero presents an innovation opportunity for the firm. "Although the last 10 to 20 per cent of diversion will be the most difficult to solve, it is also where we see the most opportunity to get creative about new community partnerships and designing waste streams out all together," he wrote.
Although it did not set a firm timeline for achieving the goal, Google did reveal that its data centre in Mayes County, Oklahoma, has become the first of its facilities to meet Google's definition of zero waste to landfill. The site uses waste compactors to help Google collect and measure its waste effectively, and places a strong focus on extending the life of server equipment and maintenance tools to reduce waste at the source, the firm said.
Miller's blog post also outlined how Google is working with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to eliminate waste from its wider operations. For example, its San Francisco kitchens use a software system called LeanPath to track food waste, which has prevented almost 400,000 pounds of food waste over the last year.
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