Earth Day 2010

In 2004, Subaru of Indiana Automotive became the very first automotive assembly plant to be declared a "Zero-Landfill" plant. The plant located in Lafayette, Indiana sends nothing from its manufacturing process to the landfill.

Nearly 99 percent of the waste is recycled and the remaining waste is turned into electricity. On a daily basis a typical household puts more trash in the ground than Subaru of Indiana’s Lafayette plant.

Ford recently announced plans to manufacture the Ford Focus Electric beginning in 2011. Earlier this year Ford introduced the Ford Transit Connect commercial van. 

Focus Electric will be rechargeable through wall outlets and is targeted to get up to 100 miles per charge. Charging the vehicles batteries will take between six to eight hours.

Allied PhotoChemical produces environmentally safe UV curable inks, paints and coatings for a wide variety of products. These environmentally friendly coatings are used for number of products ranging from doors to propane tanks.

The company assists U.S. manufacturers by helping to reduce energy usage by up to 70 percent and reduce CO2 emissions by 70 percent.

Waste Management is the largest operator of landfills, managing nearly 300 sites. The company has created a renewable energy group to harness the vast levels of methane gas produced at landfills.

Currently Waste Management provides the equivalent of more than 470 megawatts of energy which is enough to power 400,000 homes – replacing nearly two million tons of coal per year.

Applied Materials' SunFab thin film line produces the largest and most cost-effective solar panels in the world. With the SunFab fully-integrated factory solution and the large 5.7m panel design, making it possible to drive down the cost for utility scale solar energy generation to below $3.50/watt.

The Applied Materials fab2farm solar deployment model delivers low cost solar energy and creates local jobs by linking a SunFab factory with a large utility-owned solar farm.