Waste Management to Help Customers Achieve UL Environment’s Zero Waste Validation
“While there are vague and often conflicting definitions of Zero Waste
circulating in the industry, it is a designation many businesses,
communities and schools across
UL Environment’s landfill waste diversion claim validation recognizes entities that have achieved certain waste diversion milestones. Waste Management is offering its customers a streamlined route to pursuing validation by leveraging its diversion strategies and data management systems. While pursuit of zero waste is an on-going process of improvement, Carpenter said that many organizations ask for intermediate benchmarks to validate their progress.
Specifically, WM is helping customers implement strategies to increase waste diversion rates, manage diversion programs on an on-going basis, and obtain the data required by UL Environment for the validation process. The tiered claim validation structure provides three distinct claims for which customers can receive validation:
- The zero waste to landfill claim is validated by UL Environment when an organization can prove that it consistently achieves a landfill waste diversion rate of 100 percent;
- Virtually zero waste to landfill validation is for an organization that has achieved a landfill diversion rate of 98 percent or greater; and
- The landfill diversion rate validation is for an organization that has achieved a landfill diversion rate of greater than or equal to 80 percent.
Once the waste diversion data is validated by UL Environment, organizations can include the UL Environment claim validation mark on marketing materials. Carpenter said that organizations could also benefit from the designation by promoting their leadership in environmental stewardship and acquiring this data for use in supplier scorecards or other sustainability-related publications and filings.
He said that because the waste diversion claims are transparent and clearly defined, organizations will be able to demonstrate their exact level of environmental leadership to the marketplace. This type of leadership can translate into improved market share and competitiveness and can help position organizations as thought leaders.
“In today’s marketplace, businesses have an extraordinary opportunity to
advance sustainability in new and exciting ways. We applaud Waste
Management for playing a leadership role in landfill waste diversion,”
said
Waste Management Sustainability Services is a nationwide network of
environmental professionals combining environmental expertise and
project management to help clients advance along the path toward
sustainability. The consulting group has already helped hundreds of
clients in
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