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Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), today announced that its Plant 7 manufacturing operation in St. Cloud, Florida, has achieved a zero-waste-to-landfill designation. The factory makes electrical and plastic components for the company’s marine engines and related parts, accessories and technologies.
Plant 7 is the fourth Mercury facility to achieve this designation. Its three predecessors are all distribution centers: one at the Mercury world headquarters in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; another in Old Lyme, Connecticut, as part of the Land ‘N’ Sea subsidiary’s operations; and another at the Mercury European headquarters in Petit-Rechain, Belgium.
The St. Cloud operation has the distinction of being the company’s first manufacturing plant to earn the zero-waste-to-landfill label and the first facility to employ waste-to-energy methodology to help achieve this sustainability benchmark.
“As part of our sustainability goals, Mercury is taking decisive measures to reduce our climate impact, including reducing our dependence on landfill disposition of our waste across the enterprise,” said Scott Louks, Mercury sustainability manager.
“After working for many years to put a lasting recycling program in place for waste generated by our injection-molding process, we have finally accomplished an even better solution. I’m proud to have led a team effort to develop a process that avoids contributions to air, soil and water pollutants resulting from landfill disposals,” said Bob Rock, Material Manager.
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