As part of the World Class Manufacturing programme, the Group has conducted numerous analyses to identify measures necessary to improve waste management, particularly with regard to identifying and eliminating potential wastage. The principles guiding waste management at Group plants are:
-   reduction in the amount of waste produced (quantitative) and its hazard level (qualitative);
-   adoption of training and awareness programmes to influence behaviour and creation of procedures for daily management of different categories of waste
-   sorting of waste to facilitate waste recovery and make recovery preferential to disposal
-   management of disposal according to the following hierarchy:

-  waste-to-energy conversion
-  incineration
-  treatment (other than landfill and waste-to-energy conversion)
-  landfill as a last resort

Over the past three years, the percentage of waste sent to landfills has fallen from 33.2% (2007) to 27.7% (2009).

The reduction in waste generated per vehicle produced by Fiat Group Automobiles (FGA) is predominantly attributable to the lower generation of non-hazardous waste, with the higher levels registered in previous years largely resulting from plant re-engineering work.
In 2009, 90.3% of waste at FGA plants worldwide was recovered, and this figure is expected to reach 95% by 2012.