Sentences with phrase «generated by the landfill»

Gatherers take the food to local composting centers, reducing the amount of methane generated by landfills.

They also rarely factor in the emissions of the shipments to consumers, the emissions generated by consumers using the product, and the emissions generated by landfills or recycling plants that ultimately house the product.

Assessment and Impact of Leachate Generated by the Landfill City in Abidjan on the Quality of Ground Water and Surface Water (M'Badon Bay, Côte d'Ivoire)

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This means that less than 1 % of the total waste generated by the plant is used in landfill.

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.

You'll hear a statistic about the ton of landfill waste likely generated by a baby in disposable diapers in our classes, but you won't hear us giving a mom a guilt trip about her carbon impact.

The installation at the site of the former Town of Ulster landfill is expected to generate 2,360 MWh of clean electricity each year, roughly equivalent to the electricity generated by burning 2 million pounds of coal or 4,000 barrels of oil.

Mexico City fast became one of the best - studied earthquake zones in the world and scientists now know that buildings of these heights reacted to the particular frequency generated by the shake - amplifying landfill.

Methane, for example, is generated primarily by bacterial decomposition of organic matter — particularly in such places as landfills, flooded rice paddies, and theguts of cattle and termites — and by the burning of wood.

The evening hours electric demand should be provided from generators run on landfill methane and electricity generated by tidal energy.

Revenues are generated by helping cities avoid landfill disposal fees.

Another 8 percent came from biomass and plants that burn gas from landfills (which generates carbon but is considered «renewable» because the gas is released by decomposing garbage).

The digester expected to be operational at the Burrows Hall Farm by early this summer is the first in South Carolina, although Santee Cooper is already capturing methane from landfills to generate power.

Approximately 70 percent of the total waste generated by events is diverted from landfills.

1) Nudge a 1 - mi diameter nickel - iron asteroid into near - Earth orbit, and it will (rather readily) yield as much precious metal as has been mined from the Earth's crust in all history, plus huge amounts of base metals (useful mostly for large - scale orbital construction, etc.) 2) Plasma torches from either self - generated Syngas or from prospective fusion plants will enable nearly complete recycling of all waste, including landfills and equipment graveyards, etc., by reducing it to pure elemental form.

The truth is that most of the waste we generate is not considered recyclable by the public system, and is instead destined for linear disposal by landfill or incineration.

Note that links are provided to the TerraPass website where Tontitown project regulatory information is conveniently summarized.TH: - The gas collection and control system at the Tontitown, Arkansas landfill uses approximately 75 gas extraction wells (as pictured) to collect landfill gases generated by decomposing waste.

Toronto has no right to export its garbage anywhere but into its own regional landfills, where it should be dealt with by the very people who generate it.