Our EHS team collects waste data across all our facilities quarterly, enabling us to analyze our waste disposal and recycling practices and identify potential improvements while also helping us refine our data collection process.
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In 2025, our waste to landfill increased 6.4% compared to last year, driven by growth in our operations. The percentage of waste that we were able to recycle increased from 65.6% in 2024 to 69.6% in 2025. We continue to look for additional opportunities to reduce our waste and promote recycling efforts and encourage associates across our organization to share their ideas and suggestions to reduce or divert waste at their facilities, through our WAVES Social Impact Fund Program.
In 2024, we set a target of validating five facilities as Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWTL) by 2030, defined as a facility that diverts at least 90% of generated waste away from landfill through alternative methods such as recycling or reuse. In 2025, we made progress towards this target by establishing an internal ZWTL procedure modeled after the UL 2799 standard and validated our first two sites: Lanark, IL and Broadview, IL. Both facilities passed a documentation audit to verify waste tracking and data collection over a 12-month period and an onsite audit to verify waste disposal methods and standard processes.
Wood is a significant portion of our waste generation, used in both product packaging and inbound logistics. In 2025, we took a comprehensive approach to addressing this challenge, targeting waste prevention upstream in our supply chain and reuse and recycling downstream in our facilities. At our Norcross, GA facility, we piloted a wood waste reduction project to replace wood crates used in supplier shipments with cardboard packaging. We also introduced a wood pallet recycling program at several facilities with our pallet supplier, Pallet Central, to divert pallets from going to landfills.