Sentences with phrase «avoid landfill waste»

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To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

Georgiou Group has taken a proactive approach to avoid the slated increase in landfill levies, by recycling more than 90 per cent of the waste produced on its building sites.

That's a dramatic improvement, but there still remains room for growth, so FMI remain firmly committed to our Alliance's goals to divert food waste from landfills by 1) Reducing the amount of food waste generated, 2) Repurposing through increased donations, and 3) Recycling food waste that can't be avoided.

Danielle Womble, with the Waste Connections Warriors EcoChallenge Team, will compost her food waste each day and avoid sending up to.69 pounds of food waste per day to the landfill.

During the two - week challenge, more than 3,200 employees around the globe saved more than 109,300 gallons of water, equivalent to five swimming pools; eliminated more than 10,769 disposable cups from landfills; avoided nearly 400 pounds of food waste from entering the landfills; and replaced 1,245 bulbs, saving over $ 17,000 in energy costs.

When it's time to take down that tree, replant or recycle it to avoid the landfill and wasting the organic matter, which can be turned into soil enriching wood chips.

These initiatives helped the NCC reduce its Canada Day landfill waste by 29 % and avoid the potential production of nearly two and a half tonnes of carbon emissions from landfills.

Drawing on the work of previous Fox productions such as 24: Live Another Day, this year's The X-Files event series was able to divert 81 % of the production's total waste from landfill, use 100 % FSC certified mahogany for set construction, recycle 100 % of the aluminum and steel used in set construction, and avoid 33 tonnes of CO2 emissions, generating nearly $ 41,000 in cost savings.

Both waste streams are being digested together in the system, helping to create significant biogas and avoiding the dumping of the food material into a landfill.

The project, undertaken by Canada's leading processor of canned and frozen vegetables, avoids landfill methane emissions from six Ontario and Quebec based processing plants by valorizing organic waste residues into nutritional products for animals.

Although, given today's call to Occupy Our Food Supply, unless you are using a waste bottle that would otherwise end up in landfill, you may want to stick with tried - and - tested urine and avoid corporate control of the compost heap.