Hero MotoCorp – the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters – has emerged as a champion of sustainability, with all its eight facilities – including all the six manufacturing plants – in India being certified as ‘Zero-Waste-to-Landfill’ (ZWL).
The company initiated the Zero Waste-to-Landfill pilot project at its manufacturing facility at Neemrana in Rajasthan during the 2018-19 fiscal year. Since then, the amount of waste generated has reduced by 40% and all the plants have achieved a diversion rate of more than 99.9% – well before the target timeline of 2025.
Niranjan Gupta, CEO, Hero MotoCorp, said “Our zero-waste-to-landfill policy is rooted in our belief that to be a sustainable business, manufacturing with an unflinching commitment to the environment is as important as providing quality and fuel-efficient products and creating an engaging customer experience”. With six state-of-the-art plants in India – Dharuhera and Gurugram in Haryana, Haridwar in Uttarakhand, Neemrana in Rajasthan, Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, and Halol in Gujarat – and the world-class Global Parts Centre (GPC) located in Neemrana and the world-class Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT) in Jaipur – Hero MotoCorp took up the ambitious goal of being zero-waste-to-landfill by 2025.
