www.greenbuildermag.com 07.2012


Eco -LEADERSHIP 16 Cutting Waste


It sounds impossible: recycling, converting or otherwise diverting end-products so that the waste stream trickles to nothing. But a few companies are doing it. DuPont’s building innovations division surprised observers, when it reduced its 81 million pounds of waste in 2008 to zero in 2012, through a combination of tracking, recycling and creatively rethinking end-uses (crushed Corian material is shown below). Procter & Gamble is aiming to do the same thing; the company’s Long-Term Environmental Sustainability Vision, announced in 2010, includes a goal of .5% manufacturing waste sent to landfi lls by 2020. So far, about 10% of the company’s plants and distribution centers have already achieved zero waste benchmarks. Even specialty companies are getting in on the action: furniture maker Herman Miller is aiming for no landfi ll waste, no hazardous waste and no VOC emissions by 2020.


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