Landfill-Free Facilities
 We aspire to become the first automotive company in the world to achieve zero-waste manufacturing.
 We have a total of 131 landfill-free facilities worldwide that reuse, recycle, or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. No
other automaker has as many facilities contributing zero waste to landfill.
o Our 90 landfill-free manufacturing sites on average reuse or recycle approximately 97% of their waste from daily operations and
convert 3% to energy.
o We surpassed a commitment to have half of our global manufacturing operations landfill-free by the end of 2010.
o Our efforts have spread to non-manufacturing sites; we also have 41 landfill-free non-manufacturing facilities.
o We achieved landfill-free at the Renaissance Center, GM’s world headquarters dominating the Detroit skyline.
 The building is the most complex of GM’s 122 landfill-free sites as it’s the only one open to the public.
 Covering 5.5M sq. ft., the building houses an all-hotel skyscraper, 11 other businesses, 20 restaurants and 27 retailers. It
accommodates 12,000 office workers and 3,000 visitors daily.
 The facility now composts food preparation scraps from its various restaurant kitchens for use in urban farming
initiatives throughout the city, including a rooftop garden at the complex.
 We were named a Michigan Green Leader and Green Corporate Citizen for our landfill-free program, and received a Top Project of the
Year Award from Environmental Leader for driving a global movement for zero waste.
 We published a downloadable blueprint, "The Business Case for Zero Waste”, intended to help companies of all sizes and industries
reduce waste and create efficiencies.
 We’ve committed to achieve 100 landfill-free manufacturing sites and 50 non-manufacturing sites globally by 2020.
Reducing
 We were one of the first organizations, and the only automaker, inducted into the U.S. EPA WasteWise Hall of Fame.
 We committed to reduce total waste from manufacturing facilities by 40% by 2020 over a 2010 baseline. From 2010 to 2014, we
reduced it 23%.
 From 2000 to 2010, we reduced non-recycled waste by 73% and total waste by 43% at our global manufacturing facilities.
 We work with our suppliers on designing for the environment to avoid scrap.
 To help grow regional recycling and the job development network, we initiated the Suppliers' Partnership for the Environment
Southern Network Forum. We hosted automakers, suppliers, recycling partners and government officials at our Spring Hill complex to
discuss waste-reduction challenges, recycling opportunities and capabilities.
Reusing
 We helped form the Reuse Opportunity Collaboratory-Detroit initiative designed to develop a robust reuse network enabling one
company’s trash to become another organization’s raw material.
 We frequently turn material byproducts from routine manufacturing operations into new-vehicle components. We view this waste as
potentially useful and marketable, and work with our teams and suppliers to develop closed-loop systems.
o Cardboard shipping materials from various GM plants are recycled into a
superior sound-dampening material in the Buick Lacrosse and Verano
headliner to help keep the cabin quiet.
o Plastic caps and shipping aids from the Fort Wayne facility are mixed with
other materials to make radiator shrouds for the Chevrolet Silverado and
GMC Sierra pickups built at the plant.
o Test tires from our Milford, Mich. Proving Ground, thanks to their
elasticity and durability, are shredded and used in the manufacturing of
air and water baffles for a variety of GM vehicles.
o Scrap aluminum shavings from machining our transmission casings are
melted down and used to create more casings.
o Other operational waste comes full circle, as well, and is often recycled into plant supplies. Paint sludge from our Lansing
Grand River plant has been turned into plastic material and used for shipping containers durable enough to hold Chevrolet Volt
and Cruze engine components.
 We reused 1,600 shipping crates from Orion Assembly by turning them into raised beds for a Southwest Detroit community garden
providing nearby residents with locally grown food and an urban farming initiative supporting soup kitchens.
 We donate scrap vehicle sound absorption material to help insulate Empowerment Plan coats that transform into sleeping bags for the
homeless.
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Recycling
 Today, all of GM’s worldwide manufacturing facilities combined – including landfill-free plants and all others – recycle or reuse 85% of
the waste they generate.
 We recycled or reused more than 2.5 million metric tons of waste materials at our plants worldwide in 2014 – enough to fill 38 million
garbage bags. GM recycles more waste from its worldwide facilities than any other automaker.
 Our recycling and reuse efforts in 2014 avoided more than 10 million metric tons of CO2-equivalent emissions, which more than offsets
our total facility operational impacts of 8 million metric tons of direct and indirect emissions.
 We use recycled and bio-based materials (e.g., plastic bottles, cardboard, denim
fibers, carpet, tires, kenaf fibers, balsa wood and soy) in a variety of vehicle
components. Each material we use meets or exceeds product quality and
durability requirements.
 We developed a method to convert 227 miles of oil-soaked booms from the Gulf
of Mexico oil spill and turn it into air deflectors in the Chevrolet Volt, preventing
212,500 pounds of waste from entering our nation’s landfills.
Vehicle Recyclability
 We design our vehicles to be as recyclable and recoverable as is feasible,
following ISO standards and developing internal standards to gain common
benefits across global regions.
 On average, our vehicles are approximately 85% recyclable and 95% recoverable by weight.
 We work with the vehicle dismantling industry to help ensure the majority of material is salvaged and can be recycled or reused in new
vehicles or other consumer products.
Business Case
 We’ve generated $2.5B in revenue through various recycling activities from 2007 to 2010 and now count about $1B in byproduct reuse
and recycling revenue annually.
 For the last 15 years, we have been using a resource management system that allows us to view all of our waste streams and manage
them in the best possible way. This single system includes all byproducts and treats them as valuable commodities.
 We track 15,549 waste streams in our plants globally and gather approximately 10,471 points of waste data monthly.
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