Sonoco Sets Waste Reductions Goals

摘要

Sonoco is setting goals aimed at moving its manufacturing plants to landfill-free status. To achieve landfill-free status, its operations must divert 99 percent of all wastes from landfills, says Harris DeLoach Jr., chairman and ceo. Sonoco has implemented employee-driven programs at five manufacturing plants in the company's packaging services, consumer packaging, and tubes and cores operations that are focused on reducing waste streams to less man 1 percent (on a waste-to-landfill ratio) by the end of 2011. In addition, the company has established a goal to have 10 percent of the company's global manufacturing operations achieve landfill-free status by 2015.