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Car maker Honda announced it is sending zero waste to landfills from 10 of its 14 manufacturing facilities in North America, including three metalcasting plants.

The company said its engine component casting facilities in Anna, Ohio, Lincoln, Ala., and Alliston, Ontario, Canada, are reusing virtually all leftover sand from aluminum and ferrous metalcasting operations. In FY2010, the three plants recycled a total of 9,400 tons of sand, which is used as mulch and landscaping material and in concrete products.

According to the company, Honda Manufacturing of Alabama in Lincoln became the first zero-waste-to-landfill auto plant in North America at the outset of production in 2001, setting off a trend within the company.

Waste sent to landfills has been reduced at Honda auto plants throughout North America from 62.8 pounds of industrial waste to landfills for every automobile produced in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001, to an estimated 1.8 pounds per automobile in the current fiscal year.

“This is an important achievement and a tremendous reflection on the commitment and continuous effort of Honda associates throughout our company over the past 10 years to reduce waste from Honda's production operations,” said Karen Heyob, manager at Honda of America Manufacturing Inc., who is responsible for Honda's green factory initiatives in North America. “This is an even more significant achievement when you consider that we also produce in North America the engines and transmissions that power our products.”