Not only is
the annually wasted gas worth an estimated $ 30.6 billion (depending on current market prices) but it is also responsible for 0.5 % of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
Not exact matches
«Up to 40 percent of the U.S. food supply goes
wasted; it costs the U.S. $ 165 billion
annually; contributes to 14 percent of domestic greenhouse
gas emissions; and is the No. 1 material reaching landfills,» he explains.
Food that is ultimately lost or
wasted consumes about one - quarter of all water used by agriculture each year, requires cropland area the size of China to be grown, and generates about eight percent of global greenhouse
gas emissions
annually.
FAO estimates that
annually the loss and
waste adds up to US$ 940 billion and about eight per cent of global greenhouse
gas emissions.
In their analysis, the team found that bio-methane produced from all available food
waste and dairy manure in the US
annually would offset about.74 percent of annual natural
gas demand.
Our friends at the US Department of Energy state that underinflated tires
waste 4 million gallons of
gas daily, or nearly 1.5 billion
annually.
The Dawson people are certainly good environmental stewards: reducing greenhouse
gas emissions by more than 50 per cent in the past six years and committed to achieving carbon neutrality; composting 600 kilograms of cafeteria and other food
waste annually; and attracting birds and insects rarely seen in downtown Montréal back to their natural habitat.