DuPont’s Building Innovations Business Becomes Landfill Free (ZERO WASTE)
Business are seeing Zero Landfill status as a benefit to the business and valued by customers.
DuPont’s Business Innovations business has achieved zero landfill status. Three years into the effort Business Innovations “ … has become completely landfill-free, reducing its environmental footprint from 81 million pounds of landfill waste annually to zero.”
15 locations around the globe were included in this effort and materials “ …even cafeteria waste were all within scope …”
Materials that previously were landfilled are now … repurposed (cafeteria waste becomes energy), recycled (Tyvek® scraps), or reused (pallets are reused to ship goods or to make animal bedding).
No waste from the production of Corian® , Zodiaq®, Tyvek® or geosynthetic textiles is landfilled.
Via: DuPont LINK
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