Cummins announces first sites to achieve 'Zero Disposal'
January 11 2016 - 10:07AM
Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) announced today that three of its plants
in the United Kingdom and one in France are the first four sites to
achieve "Zero Disposal" status, where 100 percent of a facility's
waste is handled in a truly useful manner according to the
company's waste hierarchy.
That means waste doesn't go to a landfill and can only be
incinerated at a waste-to-energy facility after reasonable efforts
to reduce, re-use and recycle. And then it must produce more energy
than needed to merely sustain combustion.
The first four plants certified by the company as Zero Disposal
are Cummins Turbo Technologies (CTT) in Huddersfield, UK; the
Darlington Engine Plant in Darlington, UK; the Daventry Engine
Plant in Daventry, UK and the Cummins Filtration Plant in Quimper,
France.
"Congratulations to the leaders and employees at the sites and
all the partners that made these outstanding achievements
possible," said Cummins' Brian Mormino, Executive Director –
Worldwide Environmental Strategy & Compliance.
"Achieving Zero Disposal status is truly a team effort that
takes a commitment by many people inside and outside of the sites
to develop and implement a comprehensive waste strategy," Mormino
added. "The benefits to the environment and the business of these
efforts are significant."
As part of its environmental sustainability plan, the company
has established a goal of increasing its overall recycling rate
from about 90 percent in 2014 to 95 percent by 2020. In addition,
Cummins wants to reach Zero Disposal status at 30 sites by that
same year.
Collectively, the first four locations designated Zero Disposal
generated almost 26 million pounds of waste in 2014 that had to be
recycled or reused in some way. The four sites reported three
consistent factors that were critical to their success:
- Working with suppliers to reduce or eliminate hard-to-recycle
packaging.
- Adequate space to separate waste streams in preparation for
re-use, recycling and composting.
- Communication with employees, which is especially important to
remove the often hard-to-recycle final 1 or 2 percent of the waste
stream such as food waste.
The sites established information boards where employees could
see how their particular location was doing toward the Zero
Disposal goal in addition to color-coded bins where they could
place their recyclables.
All four sites also had a financial incentive to reduce, re-use
or recycle in the form of taxes, fees and regulations discouraging
disposal in landfills.
Cummins has a robust certification process to determine if sites
are managing their waste effectively and if vendors are properly
handling material both at the company location and if it leaves a
Cummins site.
"We have several more sites that are very close to achieving
Zero Disposal status," Mormino said. "I'm very encouraged by our
start toward reaching this important goal of having 30 sites
certified as Zero Disposal by 2020."
About Cummins
Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of
complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute
and service diesel and natural gas engines and related
technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling,
filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation
systems. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, (USA) Cummins
currently employs approximately 52,600 people worldwide and serves
customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a
network of approximately 600 company-owned and independent
distributor locations and approximately 7,200 dealer locations.
Cummins earned $1.65 billion on sales of $19.2 billion in 2014.
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CONTACT: Jon Mills
Director - External Communications
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jon.mills@cummins.com
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