Developing sustainable or "green" methods to reduce electricity consumption by 10 percent, water consumption by 5 percent and solid waste by 10 percent is a big task but that's the challenge put to T&B's U.S. and Mexico electrical manufacturing facilities.
To help achieve these goals, T&B's Jonesboro, Ark., facility has partnered with Greenway Recovery and Recycle, a family owned business that specializes in industrial waste management and recycling. Greenway employs a team onsite at the Jonesboro facility where they sort each piece of solid waste as well as e-waste to determine what is recyclable.
"The efforts of the Jonesboro staff in conjunction with Greenway have quickly led to world-class reduction of landfill waste," said David Dalton, environmental engineer for T&B Jonesboro. "Within the first 90 days, the facility experienced 89 percent reduction in landfill tonnage and 97 percent reduction in solid waste transportation. There is no doubt that the Jonesboro facility will surpass the green initiative environmental goals for 2011."
"Prior to our partnership with Greenway, the Jonesboro facility averaged 37 roll-off trash containers per month that were transported and dumped at the local landfill," said David. "Since April 2011, we are averaging 1.5 roll-off trash containers per month."
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