VIDEO from General Motors and Synaptic Digital: Kicking Trash Day to the Curb

American Car Maker Celebrates 100th Landfill-Free Facility


Detroit, MI, June 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Did you know that Americans throw away more than 200 million tons of waste every year? That's about 4.43 pounds of waste per person per day and 16 hundred pounds a year. Imagine what large manufacturing plants put out?

See video from General Motors at: http://inr.synapticdigital.com/GM/landfillfree/

One American car maker is well on its way to knocking that number down and eliminating trash day completely by celebrating the opening of their 100th landfill-free facility; The Toledo Transmission Plant, in Toledo, Ohio. To qualify for the environmentally friendly seal of approval, all of General Motor's landfill-free facilities recycle or reuse about 97% of their materials. The rest is burned for electricity.

With the opening of the 100th plant producing limited waste, the automotive industry is turning around the preconceived notion that car makers cause harm to the planet.

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