American Honda Honda says that it has achieved zero waste to landfill sites at 10 of its 14 plants in North America.Wednesday, Ford announced that it would increase its environmental strategy with a five-year plan to cut waste that it sent to landfill sites in the world by 40 per cent by levels of 2011 vehicle. In 2016, the company said, Ford could produce only 13.4 pounds of waste a vehicle operations in the world, down from 38 books in 2007, 22.7 books in 2011 and 20.3 books this year.
Andy Hobbs, Director of the Office of environmental quality of Ford, said the company had 14 factories worldwide that produce zero waste, or have been 'nil to landfill sites.
"We are trying to balance the needs of the business with the needs of the environment - they are not mutually exclusive, they are highly complementary," Mr. Hobbs said in an interview.
In 2012, Ford said that it has generated 225 million $ recycling 586,000 tons of scrap in North America.
For example, Ford said that a local its Committee factory transmission Van Dyke Sterling Heights, Michigan, thought how to keep 350 pounds fabric filters coolant discharge, which helped the factory become the first North American plant zero waste Ford transmission, diverting 15 tons of material per month.
Jeff Czich, a Ford senior environmental engineer, said in an interview that its supplier of external filter separated from the paper metal shavings, and then turned into new filters or used as fuel alternative for boilers. The metal goes to the new castings foundries.
Ford is hardly alone in getting seriously reduce the material that its plants send to landfill through reuse and recycling. He is joined by Honda and General Motors, among others, embracing the goals of zero waste. On 19 February, G.M. held a meeting, attended by more than 100 participants from industry, designed to help promote a recycling infrastructure in the Southeast, where many car manufacturers have plants. The event, at Spring Hill, Tennessee, brought together from many manufacturers, as well as Volkswagen, Nissan, Chrysler and Toyota.
"Participants were there specifically to work on the use of waste reduction and materials," John Bradburn, responsible for waste reduction of G.M., said in an interview. "We were happy to have them there. '' We are really pleased that other companies also pursue this issue. "Mr. Bradburn stressed the collective influence of several automakers with regional operations to start a solid network of recycling. "It is imminent," he said.
G.M., with a significant presence of manufacturing in the world, said 105 of 156 factories in the world, and 33 in North America, are free landfill. The company defines a factory zero waste like that less than 1% of the residues, and Mr. Bradburn said that even this rest must go through certain stages of recycling. G.M. said its revenues from recycling and reuse of by-product is about 1 billion $ per year.
Honda has achieved zero waste to landfill sites at 10 of its 14 plants in North America, Karen Heyob, head of green plant for North America, said in an interview. "We are close to zero with the other four," she said. "All the material sent to landfills at all 14 plants is less than 1% of all our waste. ''
Honda said that in 2012, it produced 1.76 pounds of landfill waste by car in North America, although direct comparisons with other automakers was probably unnecessary in light of changes in how the waste was measured.
Ms. Heyob said that regulations in some countries to achieve zero waste difficult. A Mexican plant, she said, will have to ship its waste to the United States because there is no recycling plant on the spot. Honda aims to overcome these barriers and to achieve zero waste in the world, she said.
Although the auto companies cite their turnover of recycling, they also tend to agree that the best way to reduce waste is to avoid the product. Sharon Basel, a spokesman for G.M. sustainability, said in an interview, "waste reduction, it does not create in the first place, is the desired end game. In fact, I would like to see our recycling turnover to go down. Reduce waste streams that are created is an endless cycle.
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