Not exact matches
Thanks
to donations, a large quantity of edible food that would have
gone to a
landfill, creating C02 emissions and increasing water and energy wastage, is now being consumed by those
most in need.
Simply putting furniture in a skip has the least benefit
to the environment as
most will
go to landfill.
For
most of the 20th century, Tel Aviv, Israel's garbage
went to a massive open
landfill.
I'm sure that is a big issue for such scientists and has public repercussions, but admittedly I did not have the interest
to read up on it, and it's time we accept the fact that
most people aren't
going to unless it personally influences them (whether it be climate change, mercury pollution, mudslides,
landfills genocide in Africa, etc etc).
It's one of the
most popular cell phone donation programs and has prevented over 11.6 million phones from
going to landfills in the decade since it started.
It is
most unlikely due
to increased costs associated with land acquisition, siting costs, more stringent environment requirements and regulations, methane production management, transport costs
to deliver MSW
to new
landfills sited further away, and on -
going expenses even for «closed»
landfills.
For
most of the 20th century, Tel Aviv, Israel's garbage
went to a massive open
landfill that eventually contained more than 25 million tons of waste and became known as Hiriya Mountain or «sh!t mountain» as locals call it.
They usually
go to waste in a
landfill despite the fact that
most of its materials are recyclable.