GM achieves landfill-free status in Rayong
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By achieving and maintaining a "landfill-free status", GM Powertrain Thailand employees are making an important contribution to GM's global environmental initiative to reduce waste at GM plants around the world, while helping conserve Thailand's natural r
Around 97 per cent of the waste generated from everyday manufacturing operations at GM “zero-landfill” plants is recycled or reused, and the remaining 3 per cent is converted to energy.
The Rayong site is GM’s first landfill-free operation of 2013, while 30 of the company’s overseas plants have now attained zero-landfill status.
GM has set a sustainability goal to certify 100 operations as “landfill-free” by 2020. The company is ahead of schedule, with 105 facilities both manufacturing and non-manufacturing worldwide already meeting this target.
“We’re committed to reducing our environmental impact in Thailand and around the world,” said David Clarkson, vice president of Powertrain, General Motors Thailand and Southeast Asia. “Our employees in Rayong deserve credit for their enthusiasm and effort to achieve ‘landfill-free’ status.
The GM Powertrain team has worked hard to meet this goal on behalf of Thailand and the entire GM global manufacturing community. They are clearly dedicated to environmental sustainability.”
GM Thailand’s Environmental Services group is responsible for management and reduction of all waste and manufacturing by-products, recycling and re-using as much of the material as possible.
GM Powertrain Thailand, the producer of the efficient Duramax diesel engine, has been working to achieve landfill-free status since the plant opened in 2011. Today, the facility recycles 50 per cent of all solid waste, including metal filings and chips, cafeteria waste, office materials and general trash.
