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El Sobrante Landfill is a Class 3 regional disposal facility permitted to accept up to 10,000 tons per day, seven days per week. It employs approximately 40 full-time employees. Landfill operations are overseen by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.
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We are very proud to say that El Sobrante Landfill was featured in Waste Management’s Corporate Sustainability Report, “The Color of Our World,” which was released this month.
The report outlines the internal steps Waste Management is taking to advance its environmental performance, as well as the growing number of environmental services it provides for customers. The report is available at http://www.wm.com/wm/environmental/srr.asp.
In 2007, the baseline year of the report, Waste Management established four key goals for corporate sustainability:
- Doubling waste-based energy production: Today, Waste Management creates enough energy to power 1 million homes each year through landfill-gas-to-energy and waste-to-energy facilities. By 2020, the company expects to produce enough electricity to power more than 2 million homes.
- Triple the volume of recyclables: Waste Management currently manages 8 million tons of recyclables, and by 2020 it plans to process more than 20 million tons.
- Improve fuel efficiency: By directing capital spending of up to $500 million per year over the next decade, Waste Management will move to increase fleet efficiency by 15 percent and reduce emissions by 15 percent by 2020.
- Preserve and restore wildlife habitat: Waste Management plans to quadruple the number of its facilities certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council from 24 to 100. By 2020, the company expects to have set aside 25,000 acres for conservation and wildlife habitat.
El Sobrante Landfill helped further Waste Management’s sustainable goals by continuing to create renewable energy through its onsite landfill gas-to-energy station that generates enough electricity to power approximately 6,000 homes a year. This is the equivalent of 105,000 barrels of oil or about 21,500 tons of coal per year that would otherwise be mined as a non-renewable source of energy.
In November, El Sobrante Wildlife Preserve earned its re-certification with the Wildlife Habitat Council (“WHC”) and obtained a second new certification, “Corporate Lands for Learning” (“CLL”). WHC’s certification program recognizes outstanding wildlife habitat management and environmental education efforts at corporate sites, and offers third-party validation of the benefits of such programs. El Sobrante Landfill is the first landfill in the West to be recognized with the CLL award and one of 10 sites certified corporate wide.
We are very pleased with our sustainable achievements in 2008 and look forward to more green successes in 2009!
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