SOSTRINABIUTY AND A COMMITMENT TO THINKING 'CRADLE-TO-CRADLE'

摘要

“ODAY, THERE'S A LOT OF FOCUS on sustainability and the circular economy," says Lee Verhey, Trinity's Senior Vice President of Quality Assurance and Director of Compliance. "You used to hear people talking about 'cradle-to-grave.' Now, it's changing to 'cradle-to-cradle.' How do we take the products we make and redeploy them? Where can they be repurposed - not put in a landfill somewhere, but given new life?" This cradle-to-cradle commitment is anything but rhetorical: Ifs real, Verhey says. "You see it operationally, in our plants," Verhey says. "At our Longview, Texas, facility we've installed a system that takes paint fumes and incinerates them so we limit emissions to the air. We have wastewater treated. But we're also looking at our railcar designs. What most people wouldn't even think of is a railcar is pretty much one hundred percent recyclable."