Greentech Lead America: Waste Management, a provider of waste management solutions in North America, is now offering UL Environment’s claim validation service to help customers validate their zero waste initiative.
UL Environment is a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories). UL Environment’s landfill waste diversion claim validation recognizes entities that have achieved certain waste diversion milestones.
Under this partnership, Waste Management is offering its customers a streamlined route to pursuing validation by leveraging its diversion strategies and data management systems. While pursuit of zero waste is an on-going process of improvement, many organizations ask for intermediate benchmarks to validate their progress.
Specifically, WM is helping customers implement strategies to increase waste diversion rates, manage diversion programs on an on-going basis, and obtain the data required by UL Environment for the validation process. The tiered claim validation structure provides three distinct claims for which customers can receive validation:
The zero waste to landfill claim is validated by UL Environment when an organization can prove that it consistently achieves a landfill waste diversion rate of 100 percent. Virtually zero waste to landfill validation is for an organization that has achieved a landfill diversion rate of 98 percent or greater. The landfill diversion rate validation is for an organization that has achieved a landfill diversion rate of greater than or equal to 80 percent.
Once the waste diversion data is validated by UL Environment, organizations can include the UL Environment claim validation mark on marketing materials. Organizations could also benefit from the designation by promoting their leadership in environmental stewardship and acquiring this data for use in supplier scorecards or other sustainability-related publications and filings.