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Four United Biscuits Sites Eliminate Landfill Waste

<p>&nbsp;Four of United Biscuits' snack-making facilities no longer send trash to be tossed in landfill.</p>

 Four of U.K. snack maker United Biscuits' facilities no longer send waste to landfill, and the rest of its sites plan to be recycling or incinerating all of their waste by 2012.

United Biscuits, parent to brands like McVitie's, Hula Hoops and McCoy's, operates 14 facilities in the U.K. and was originally planning to have all of its operations be zero-waste-to-landfill by 2015.

But early last year, after announcing it was no longer sending any food waste to landfills and cut non-food waste to landfill by 44 percent, United Biscuits moved that goal up to 2012.

The company's Hayes, Consett, Rotherham and Ashby locations have stopped sending trash to landfills through a combination of increasing how much they are recycling, reducing how much material comes into their sites and incinerating what's left over at waste-to-energy facilities.

Last year, United Biscuits' increased the volume of materials its entire operations were recycling by 19 percent and reduced the amount of waste being sent to landfill by 55 percent.

When the company announced its waste achievements from 2009 in early 2010, it also set new goals for cutting water use and carbon emissions related to transportation since it had met its original goals early.

McVitie's - CC license by mdid (Flickr)

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