Haworth says its manufacturing, distribution approach milestone goal of not producing landfill trash

As part of an ongoing effort of sustainability and eco-stewarship, Haworth has achieved the goal of zero landfill trash for 10 of its manufacturing facilities and one distribution center. Now the company turns its focus to recycling even more waste and composting.

According to excerpts from the story:

Bill Gurn has lofty goals.
The facilities manager at Haworth Inc. was behind the move to get the company’s 10 U.S. manufacturing facilities and one distribution center to zero-landfill status.

That status is the tip of a sustainability iceberg that ends at the holy grail of environmentalism: zero waste.
For that, the 7,000-employee office furniture manufacturer would, simply, produce no trash. Only it wouldn’t be simple.

“I probably won’t live to see that day,” Gurn said.

But since April he’s been able to say he got 11 plants to stop sending trash to a landfill.


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