A large pollution-prevention organization has recognized General Motors Co.’s Toledo Powertrain Plant for its efforts to reduce its environmental impact.

The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable in Washington gave the plant a national award on Tuesday as part of the EPA’s pollution prevention week.

GM’s Toledo plant has taken steps to significantly reduce its energy consumption.

The company said the amount of energy it takes to build each transmission has been reduced by 30 percent and wastewater discharge from the plant has been cut by 60 percent since 2009.

Landfill gas and a 1.8-megawatt rooftop solar array provides 19 percent of the energy of the plant, which is one of GM’s 111 landfill-free facilities.

First Published September 18, 2014, 4:00 a.m.