Proctor and Gamble may be known for a lot of things, and now environmental consciousness is at the top of their list. The global company recently announced that their Maine facility was the first North American manufacturing plant to achieve zero waste to landfill. The site, located in Auburn, Maine, is now the ninth to achieve zero waste from the company. The feminine care facility recycles or reuses 60 percent of the waste, while the remainder is converted to energy.
The P&G Global Asset Recovery Purchases (GARP) team helped the local team partner with an external waste-management company, who helped the Auburn site turn its waste into useable and recyclable material. Any excess electricity produced from the conversion is purchased by the local power company.
"Auburn's success is the latest milestone in our continued global effort to achieve zero manufacturing waste sent to landfill," said Len Sauers, P&G vice president of global sustainability. "GARP is a terrific example of how internal innovation and external partnerships have joined to help realize the company's sustainability vision and goals."
Additional P&G sites that have zero waste to landfill are the Fabric and Home Care site in Belgium, Beauty & Grooming site in the United Kingdom and other Feminine Care sites in Hungary and Italy. Their brands are some of the most trusted in the world, from Pampers® to Tide®, Always®, Pantene®, Bounty®, Dawn®, Gain®, Pringles®, Charmin®, Downy®, Lenor®, Iams®, Crest®, Oral-B®, Duracell®, Olay®, Head & Shoulders®, Wella®, Gillette®, Braun®. Working in 80 countries, they have roughly 127,000 employees.
