Sentences with phrase «at landfill waste»

The countries are aiming to set up a so - called Methane Abatement Facility with pledges of $ 100 million under the auspices of the World Bank to buy and cancel carbon credits, initially from projects that cut emissions at landfill waste sites.

Not exact matches

Landfills are a major eyesore and a major methane producer so waste must be minimized at all times, it should also be minimized for the simple reason that it will save you money.

As we are already at zero waste to landfill, we are looking at further innovative ways to capture and treat recyclable materials.

At the manufacturer level, the preferred method of food waste recovery is conversion to animal feed, while for retailers, composting and food donation are the preferred means of diverting product from going to landfills.

The FWRA toolkit focuses on strategies food manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators can employ to keep food out of landfills, and to reduce food waste at the source.

Compiled by FWRA, a cross-sector industry initiative led by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the National Restaurant Association (NRA), the guide focuses on strategies food manufacturers, retailers and restaurant and foodservice operators can employ to keep food out of landfills, and to reduce food waste at the source.

Also, at the end of 2014 we had more than 50 % of our stores participating in food waste recycling, which resulted in another 20,500 tons diverted from landfills.

We are building on progress at our production sites to reduce landfill waste, and plan to work more closely with supply partners to ensure that all the packaging we receive can be recycled.

Tosca's reusable containers reduce waste: less shrink, less labor, less space on the truck and in the landfill - improving your supply chain at every turn.

Reducing waste at source, channeling excess food to hungry people, using it for animal feed, employing it for other industrial uses and composting were preferable to landfill, she said.

Two diverse biodegradable film options for foods, one for primary packaging and the other for restaurants, that can help reduce food waste sent to landfills were found at Process Expo.

According to Elizabeth Rogers, co-author of The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time, «If we all give up one napkin a day, we could save a billion pounds of paper waste from going to landfills each year.»

At the same time national headlines on childhood obesity, poor nutrition, and the impact of landfill waste were inundating the news.

Each month you rush to the store to restock and at the end of your cycle, all of that waste is buried in your local landfill for eternity.

According to a recent report from the internet, at least 18 billion disposable diapers are being thrown to landfills in the US alone, a waste material that threatens the soil and adds to air pollution.

Santa Clarita, which considers itself forward - thinking when it comes to waste matters, jumped at Chobanian's idea after its own studies estimated that the city generates 6,700 tons of dirty diapers a year, most of which end up in a Los Angeles County landfill.

According to the EPA, this is at a rate of 18,000,000,000 per year for us Americans making «disposable diapers the third - largest source of solid waste in landfills.»

That will at least take care of the human waste aspect once the diaper hits the landfill.

It's my guess that governments are probably going to start cracking down on disposable diapers, containing human waste, entering the landfills at some point.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

«Consequently, waste collection operators are directed to use the landfill site at Owu Elepe in Ikorodu and the second one in Epe.

Sustainability best practice was considered at every stage of the project and some of the measures included: · at least 90 % of construction and demolition waste was either recycled or diverted from landfill; · a project - specific construction travel plan was devised prior to work on site to reduce road transport movements and deliveries;

In 1999, the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee warned that the Landfill Tax had had hardly any effect on the disposal of active waste, but improvement in recycling technology and a rising tax rate has addressed this at least in part.

Attendees can choose from an impressive variety of workshops that range from hands - on cooking demonstrations, learning how to compost food scraps to reduce landfill waste, conversations about getting healthier foods at bodegas and neighborhood stores, and learning about food - coops and community supported agriculture as alternatives to existing food systems.

The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.

At the time, the town and county were considering giving land next to the landfill to a Canadian company, to build a plant that would convert biosolid waste into fertilizer.

When one California city started a composting program to keep food waste out of its landfill, residents began to pay more attention to other environmentally sound practices, such as taking shorter showers, according to a study led by Nicole Sintov, an assistant professor of behavior, decision making and sustainability at The Ohio State University.

Kirk Brown, professor of soil science at Texas A & M University, compared the leachate from landfills licensed to take hazardous waste to that from domestic waste tips.

«The goal of the project is to demonstrate our potential at Kansas State University to initiate a successful closed - loop recycling and composting program that diverts waste from landfills and produce a beneficial product,» Mladenov said.

The solid waste in landfills is typically at a pH that's considered too acidic to host methanogens, methane - producing microbes.

The study's primary goal was to learn more about the efficiency of methane capture systems at landfills, which are more effective after a landfill stops accepting new waste, he said.

Methane capture systems at open landfills aren't installed quickly enough to capture methane from rotting food waste, he said.

It's easy to toss your waste into the nearest trash bin when the alternative is littering, but holding on to your recyclables until you are able to place them in your blue bin at home or the nearest public recycling drop - off is a significant way to divert these items from landfills.

The days of the traditional mop and bucket may be over, but increased convenience doesn't need to come at the expense of increased landfill waste.

At the same time you'll eliminate plastic bottles and landfill waste.

With about five short conversations and a bit of oral and written language (a sign and an announcement) we were able to change the status quo by diverting at least 200 plastic bottles and aluminum cans out of the landfill or incineration waste stream.

Landfills are filling up, and much of a school's waste comes from the food and packaging chucked in the garbage at lunch.

Mr. Huggins informed me that Tulsa has a contract with a waste management company that operates a landfill at 46th Street North near highway 169 referred to as the Quarry Llandfill at 46th Street North near highway 169 referred to as the Quarry LandfillLandfill.

-- Minimize waste disposal at landfill (TPA).

These items, including Christmas lights or fairy lights, should not be sent to landfill and can be recycled at a household waste recycling centre.

If the manufacturer is unable to accept them, old filters can be disposed of with your normal rubbish collection or in the landfill container at household waste recycling centres.

People waste billions of gallons of water a year watering their lawns, and the landfills are bursting at the seams.

«When you consider the 6 billion cups of tea that are brewed up every year in the UK, we are looking at around 150 tonnes of polypropylene — that's an enormous amount of accumulated plastic waste that is either contaminating food waste compost collections or simply going to landfill.»

They will be re-labeling, re-educating and re-classifying the «Food Waste,» «Co-Mingle», «Landfill» and other waste produced at their facility.

With over 170 team members, they are visiting farmers markets, starting recycling programs at work, diverting waste from landfills and installing toilet tank banks.

AEP «sthe Flint Creek Power Plant and Conesville Power Plant were noted as having a high level of chromium at their coal waste landfills.

The EPA has identified at least 645 regulated landfills that have waste - to - energy projects and another 440 that aren't currently generating electricity — but could — and no one really knows how many small, unregulated projects like Gailliot's are out there.

Nationally, at least 42 percent of coal combustion waste ponds and landfills are unlined.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vawaste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vaWASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vawaste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; 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Residents and environmental activists expressed concerns at a public hearing Wednesday night that the state's pending stormwater permit for the Bridgeton Landfill does not require monitoring for radioactive waste.