Mars Chocolate North America goes landfill-free
Mars Chocolate North America has that all of its ten factories have achieved zero-waste-to-landfill.
In 2007, the company set a target to go landfill-free by 2015. Since its original announcement, Mars as reduced around 4,500 metric tons of waste annually – enough to fill 35 American football fields, 12 inches deep per year.
Mars set the goal as part of its Principles in Action, which includes a target to eliminate all fossil fuel energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from direct operations by 2040.
In April last year, the company said that it would develop a 200MW wind farm in Texas that would generate 100% its electricity needs for the firm’s US operations.
