ANN ARBOR, MICH.—NSF Sustainability, a division of the global public health organization NSF International, has partnered with Sustainable Waste Solutions to provide companies with effective waste management solutions without utilizing landfills for their waste disposal. By providing landfill-free verification, NSF International and Sustainable Waste Solutions will assess companies to document that all wastes generated are reused, recycled or processed as waste to energy.
Achieving landfill-free status is a significant accomplishment. Giving companies the opportunity to demonstrate their environmental leadership by verifying their environmental claim through reputable, independent third-party organizations is essential.
Sustainable Waste Solutions provides a broad range of reuse, recycling and waste services to its customers. Industries serviced include food manufacturing, pharmaceutical, high tech, automotive, defense, packaging and more.
Qualification Criteria
NSF International’s independent landfill-free verification enables companies to demonstrate that less than one percent of their process waste goes to landfill for disposal and that they have documented waste management procedures and trainings in place. Qualifying for NSF landfill-free verification also requires:
• Retaining documentation and tracking all waste streams;
• Maintaining containers to manage waste;
• Establishing a program for electronic waste management;
• Employee and contracting training; and
• Audits of the facility to ensure these procedures are in place.
Every day, more than 80,000 tons of waste are diverted from landfills by Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities. The renewable energy produced by these EfW facilities is enough to power more than 2.5 million homes (Source: U.S. EPA).
“Providing companies with waste management solutions will supply additional credibility and transparency to their landfill-free claims while helping to protect the environment for future generations,” said Tom Bruursema, General Manager of NSF International’s Sustainability Division. “We look forward to working with Sustainable Waste Solutions to recognize more organizations’ responsible waste management achievements.”
“Having provided landfill-free services to our customers for a number of years, partnering with NSF is a natural progression for us,” said Randy Hendricks, CEO of Sustainable Waste Solutions. “Our customers will have easy access to third-party verification of their landfill-free claims. We look forward to working with NSF as we make more businesses landfill-free.”
Go to NSF Sustainability and Sustainable Waste Solutions.
