GM Pledges to Boost Recycling

WARREN, Mich. (AP) _ General Motors says half of its major factories worldwide will recycle or reuse nearly all of their waste materials by the end of 2010.

The automaker also says 33 more of its factories have achieved ``landfill-free'' status, bringing the total to 43 worldwide.

To gain that status, factories must recycle more than 96 percent of their waste materials, with the rest being shipped to waste-to-energy incinerators.

GM has about 160 manufacturing facilities worldwide, including joint ventures. It plans to make 80 of them landfill-free.