Procter & Gamble Reaches 45 Facilities with Zero Waste to Landfills

Allan Gerlat, News Editor

April 2, 2013

1 Min Read
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Procter & Gamble (P&G) said it now has 45 of its facilities that have achieved zero manufacturing waste sent to landfills.

The Cincinnati-based consumer products manufacturer said in a news release the achievement is a major step toward the company’s goal of sending no manufacturing and consumer waste to landfills. During the past five years the company’s effort to find worth in waste has created more than $1 billion in value for P&G.

The company said that 99 percent of all materials entering P&G plants leave as a finished product or are recycled, reused or converted into energy. That is achieved through quality assurance, packaging reduction, compaction and recycling efforts.

 

 

About the Author

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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