Solid Waste Reduction Goal Reduce solid waste sent to landfill by 1000 metric tons by 2007 relative to a baseline year of 2002

“Non-hazardous waste” refers to office, cafeteria, landscaping, and more innocuous process wastes that are less harmful – similar to trash we generate in our homes. While this waste poses less potential risk to people and the environment than hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste is still an environmental concern. Since non-hazardous waste production is not closely tied to manufacturing activity, AMD has set an absolute reduction goal, rather than one normalized to production.

AMD has launched numerous recycling projects at AMD sites for office materials like paper, cardboard, toner cartridges, batteries, aluminum and plastic as well as manufacturing wastes like sulfuric acid, scrap wafers, thermocouples, and chemical vapor deposition targets. These efforts have helped AMD achieve a 55 percent diversion rate of waste away from landfills. Similar to other AMD goals, non-hazardous waste from Fab 36 expected to be sent to landfill is incorporated into this goal.