Photo via Subaru . Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. There is a Subaru plant along a stretch of I-65 that you can’t miss if you happen to find yourself about an hour north of Indianapolis, traveling toward Chicago. It’s a 2.9 million square foot facility (with 3.4 million usable square feet including a second floor) that covers over 70 football fields. It’s big, but I can’t say that this particular plant looks all that different than any other from the outside. But get inside (they offer a 90 minute tour) and you’ll learn that not only was it the first auto assembly plant in the U.S. to achieve zero-landfill status , but they took that to heart and have gone a lot further. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Eyes On: A Visit to a Zero Landfill Subaru Plant
