* Washington - Kenworth truck assembly plant earns 2015 Best Workplace Award
-- Kenworth Truck Co.’ assembly plant in Renton, Wash., recently earned a 2015 Best Workplace for Waste Prevention and Recycling Award from the King County Solid Waste Division for exceptional efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle... That marks the seventh consecutive year that Kenworth-Renton has received the award, which enabled the plant to achieve King County’s Honor Roll status for the third consecutive year... Kenworth–Renton’s Zero Waste to Landfill initiative features the recycling of paper, cardboard, wood, plastics, metals, engine oils, antifreeze, batteries, electronics, light bulbs, toner cartridges — and even the cooking oil used in the cafeteria... The Kenworth program includes use of returnable shipping containers, recycling of wood pallets, reduced packaging material and waste-stream segregation... Kenworth’s plants in Renton, Wash., and Chillicothe, Ohio, both hold the prestigious ISO 14001:2004 certification for effective environmental management systems established to help build Class 8 trucks in an environmentally sustainable manner...
(Photo: Kenworth Truck Co.’s assembly plant in Renton, Washington state) -- Renton, Wash., USA - Trucking News - July 27, 2015Labels: truckmakers news USA
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