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Three National Parks Focused on Reducing Waste

September 14, 2020

Via: Waste360

Subaru of America, Inc., the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and National Park Foundation (NPF) have created an innovative partnership to reduce the amount of waste that the Denali, Grand Teton and Yosemite national parks send to landfills.

With an average of 330 million visitors each year, the National Park Service (NPS) manages nearly 70 million pounds of waste nationally. Since the initiative launched, more than 16 million pounds of waste have been kept out of landfills. In addition, last year, the pilot parks cut their landfill waste by nearly half.

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