Proctor and Gamble, the company behind household name consumer brands including Gillette, Ariel, Tide and Pampers, has announced that 45 of its facilities have achieved zero manufacturing waste to landfill. The company’s waste capture effort has created over $1 billion in value, it stated in a press release.

Less than 1% of all materials entering P&G sites globally now leaves as waste, as a result of packaging reduction, compaction, recycling and waste-to-energy efforts. In Mexico, paper sludge from a Charmin toilet tissue plant is converted into low-cost roof tiles used to build homes in the local community. At a U.S. Pampers site, scrap from the wipe manufacturing process is converted to upholstery filling. And, in the U.K., waste created in the production of Gillette shaving foam is composted then used to grow turf for commercial uses.

“We focused on finding solutions for our toughest waste streams at our largest sites…Today, we have found ways to divert most of our major waste streams away from landfill, so we’re now seeing new sites achieve zero manufacturing waste to landfill nearly every month,” said Dr. Forbes McDougall, who leads P&G’s global zero manufacturing waste program.

P&G first announced its first zero manufacturing waste to landfill site in Budapest in 2007. Since then, the company has pledged to aim for zero consumer and manufacturing waste worldwide.