GM's Plants to be Landfill-Free by End of 2010

33 Operations Recently Reach Landfill-Free Status, Bringing Current Total to 43 Company Accelerating Efforts to Reduce Facility Impact on Environment. In Warren, MI – General Motors announced on sept 5th a commitment to make half of its major global manufacturing operations landfill-free by the end of 2010. When translating the commitment to an individual facility basis, more than 80 of GM’s manufacturing operations will become landfill-free over the next 28 months. GM facilities achieve the landfill-free status when all production waste or garbage is recycled or reused.
As part of the initiative, the company announced 33 global operations have recently reached landfill-free status, bringing the company’s current total number of landfill-free manufacturing operations to 43.