Ford Landfill-Free at Mexico Plants
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
Ford's Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly Plant has attained zero waste-to-landfill status, which means the company is now landfill-free in all of its Mexico manufacturing facilities
As a result,FordMexico's manufacturing plants are diverting 1.5 million pounds of landfillwastethis year and each year going forward, based on 2014 rates for waste generation, the company says in its2014-15 sustainability report.
The Hermosillo facility, as well as Ford's Cuautitlan and Chihuahua plants in Mexico, will help the company achieve its target of reducing global waste-to-landfill by 40 percent per vehicle produced from 2011 to 2016; Ford reduced global per vehicle waste-to-landfill by 40 percent from 2007 to 2011.
Work began nearly five years ago to make Ford Mexico's manufacturing plants landfill-free. Nearly 45 tons of cafeteria waste now are composted and reused by farmers to improve agricultural growth and community green areas surrounding the plants. Solvents arerecycledand scrap aluminum is collected for reuse, creating closed-loop systems.
Ford's sustainability report also highlights the company's work to meet its goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 30 percent per vehicle produced by 2025 globally. From 2013 to 2014, CO2emissions per vehicle produced decreased by more than 2.4 percent, and the company remains on track to meet its longer-term goal.
Ford has alsoreduced its global water useover the last several years. In 2014, the automaker announced it reduced per vehicle water use by 30 percent globally from a 2009 baseline — reaching its goal two years ahead of schedule.
Source: Environmental Leader
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