January 14, 2009
Waste Management To Cut CO2 Emissions 6% By 2010
Waste Management reported in its 2008 Sustainability report (PDF) that the company recycled 7.6 million tones of materials and produced enough energy to power 1.3 million homes. As a founding member of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the company plans to reduce CO2 emissions by 6 percent from its 1998-2001 baselines by 2010.
Waste Management currently manages nearly 8 million tons of recyclables per year and plans to triple that amount to about 20 million tons of recyclable per year by 2020. In order to meet that goal, the company will rely in part on the volumes….
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