2021 Owens Corning Sustainability Report | Reducing Our Environmental Footprint | Waste Management | 178 WASTE MANAGEMENT In this chapter: ƒ 2030 GOALS ƒ OUR APPROACH ƒ OUR INITIATIVES ƒ OUR PERFORMANCE ƒ GOING FORWARD As a manufacturing company, Owens Corning recognizes the need to control waste throughout our organization. We understand that all around the world, too much waste is sent to landfills, and it’s having a detrimental impact on our planet. By improving efficiencies in our operations, we strive to reduce the amount of waste we generate and keep the waste we do produce from going into landfills. When we reduce our environmental footprint, we are also doing a great deal to improve our product handprint. Owens Corning’s waste management goals for the coming decade are increasingly vital in these efforts. With waste-reduction goals embedded in our product innovation and stewardship principles, we focus on redesigning processes to avoid the creation of waste and repurposing or recycling it whenever possible. And diverting waste from the landfill has far-reaching benefits, as it enables us to close the loop on our transition to the circular economy model. Our waste management efforts align with the following UN SDG: Photo submitted by: Mark Sendi | St. George, Utah, U.S. The Narrows in Zion National Park, Utah. Sustainability Materiality Definition: Our ambition is to mitigate the waste that we produce by redesigning the process to avoid its creation, and repurposing it whenever possible. We are committed to redefining waste, continuously looking for beneficial uses for our byproducts and other waste materials. The waste data in this chapter were independently assured to a moderate level by SCS Global Services. For more information on the assurance process see About the Report, and for our verification statement please see Appendix F . For the data in this section, baseline adjustments were made following the World Resources Institute (WRI) protocols. Read more on page 291 in About the Report.