GM assembly plant diverts 100% of its waste

Nov. 30 -- The General Motor’s Fort Wayne Assembly Plant in Indiana now diverts all of its waste from landfills.The facility is GM´s first assembly plant to reach to that goal, according to the News-Sentinel newspaper in Fort Wayne.

GM recycles around 92% of their waste worldwide, but the company still generates 2.5 million tons of waste. That’s enough to fill the beds of 6.8 million pick-up trucks, the paper reported.

Recycling efforts at the Fort Wayne plant generated $2 million in revenue in 2010 while also saving $1 million by using methane power from a landfill to power several boilers.

"We´ve always looked at Fort Wayne as being progressive and innovative," said John Bradburn, GM´s manager of waste-reduction efforts. "People don´t want to be wasteful. It´s really about finding innovative ways to get things done."

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