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21
REDUCING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
Whirlpool Corporation was the first appliance company
to announce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions goals. By
2008, we reduced our global direct and indirect GHG
emissions to 3 percent below 1998 levels, while increasing
production. We are now on target to reduce them to 6.6
percent below 2003 levels by 2012.
We anticipate receiving LEED certification for three new
facilities:
• A new $120 million Cleveland, Tenn., 1-million-square-
foot premium cooking plant that begins production in
early 2012
• A new $85 million Southwest Michigan office campus
that will open in the spring of 2012
• A new $40 million, 1-million-square-foot regional
distribution center in Wilmer, Texas
The company has increased the use of railcars, which
are more fuel efficient than trucks, and intermodal
transportation, which uses shipping containers that
transfer smoothly from railcar to truck. Whirlpool North
America has saved more than 6 million gallons of diesel
fuel and reduced CO2 emissions by more than 60,000
metric tons through these changes.
Our Cassinetta, Italy, manufacturing facility is fully powered
by a co-generation plant, which derives electricity from
methane gas. Steam produced by the co-generation plant’s
turbines is used in industrial processes. The Whirlpool
Naples production facility in southern Italy is one of the
largest private solar photovoltaic plants. The facility’s roof
and parking area are fitted with solar panels and cover an
area of 7,500 square meters. The 1 million kilowatt hours
of solar energy produced annually are sold back to the
local electrical grid.
RECYCLING INITIATIVES
• More than 80 percent of materials used in Whirlpool
Corporation’s products can be recycled.
• Whirlpool Latin America is able to recycle 90 percent of
refrigerator components, and the remaining 10 percent
is disposed of according to Brazilian environmental
guidelines.
• The
Brastemp
brand water purifier has a recyclability
rate of more than 97 percent.
•
The
Brastemp
brand
Viva!
initiative includes collecting
the packaging from Whirlpool Latin America’s products
that are sold door-to-door. Nearly 60 percent of this
collected packaging is recycled.
• Whirlpool Canada is a steward for packaging in three
Canadian provinces — Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba —
and abides by the provinces’ appliance packaging
recycling requirements.
• Many Whirlpool Corporation factories and warehouses
around the world reuse or recycle transportation and
packaging material.