Sentences with phrase «by a landfill in»

A state senator lashed out Monday at the Department of Environmental Conservation for its failure to protect residents living by a landfill in Wheatfield that was recently declared a Superfund site.

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But methane gas, which is produced by, among other things, rotting garbage in the nation's landfills, is 22 times more potent a contributor to global warming.

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

So perhaps it's not a surprise that when he was working on the floor of a Cambridge, Ont., vinyl manufacturer in the early 2000s, he was struck by the sheer quantity of waste foam that the company shipped off to the landfill due to minor defects.

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.

John Strelitz, president of paper broker Streco Fibres, in Virginia Beach, Va., keeps paper out of landfills by buying, for example, scrap magazine stock and selling it to the gift - wrap market.

«Within our new Environmental Services segment, incinerator utilization in the first quarter was seasonally strong at 87 %, while landfill volumes rose 58 % from the same period a year ago, driven by a large project and higher base business,» McKim said.

In 2016, the solar, landfill gas, and fuel cell projects funded by New Energy Capital offset over 1,190,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.

All Subaru products are manufactured in zero - landfill production plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. is the only U.S. automobile production plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.

It is among the first companies in the United States to have the landfill diversion efforts at its plants verified by NSF International Strategic Registrations, a major milestone in the food industry.

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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.

For example, French's manufacturing site in Springfield, Mo. sends zero waste to landfills by recycling all excess plastic and paper materials and contributing food waste to be used as animal feed.

«We have reduced our waste by 60 percent going to the landfill in the last six months,» Bosma notes.

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

In February 2012, the Tremonton facility was given «Landfill Free» status by NSF International Strategic Registrations.

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

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

Not only will you be saving money by not eating out, you'll be saving the world from the number of wasteful throwaway containers that end up in landfills.

Matthew Miller, business director at James Cropper 3D Products, said: «Sustainability is higher on the agenda of businesses than ever before, with consumer brands, in particular, looking to tackle the landfill crisis by sourcing more environmentally responsible ways to package their products.

The goal for Nestlé is to make 100 percent of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, with none of its packaging ending up in a landfill or as litter.

Measures put in place by The Coca - Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and PepsiCo diverted 330,000 tons of waste from landfills in 2015.

Finding a way to save 2.5 million paper cups from landfill has been applauded by the paper packaging industry with James Cropper returning from Luxepack Monaco with the trade exhibition's annual «In Green» Award, recognising the most innovative, eco-friendly paper production development of 2013.

For example, by 2020 no general waste will go to landfill, compared with 13 % in 2008, and product packaging will be 100 % recyclable.

In the UK the drinks industry needs to lobby for a consistent approach to recycling across the board by all local authorities, without that despite published «collection rates» a minimum of 35 % of all materials collected for recycling will still end up in landfilIn the UK the drinks industry needs to lobby for a consistent approach to recycling across the board by all local authorities, without that despite published «collection rates» a minimum of 35 % of all materials collected for recycling will still end up in landfilin landfill.

In fact, we were the first manufacturer of our size to be verified landfill free by the NSF - ISR.

«Approximately 80 billion pounds of food waste is discarded in U.S. landfills each year and the issue is now getting national attention following the announcement of USDA and EPA's first - ever national food waste reduction goals in September,» said Patti Olenick, Sustainability Manager for Weis Markets, Inc. «In order to achieve a 50 - percent reduction by 2030, corporations everywhere will be looking to do their parin U.S. landfills each year and the issue is now getting national attention following the announcement of USDA and EPA's first - ever national food waste reduction goals in September,» said Patti Olenick, Sustainability Manager for Weis Markets, Inc. «In order to achieve a 50 - percent reduction by 2030, corporations everywhere will be looking to do their parin September,» said Patti Olenick, Sustainability Manager for Weis Markets, Inc. «In order to achieve a 50 - percent reduction by 2030, corporations everywhere will be looking to do their parIn order to achieve a 50 - percent reduction by 2030, corporations everywhere will be looking to do their part.

Kellogg has reduced waste sent to landfill by more than 60 percent since 2005, including food waste, and remains committed to ensuring edible food waste is donated to feed people in need, when appropriate.

GMA member companies have been working hard to minimize food waste by reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfills and donating food to those in need, she testified.

He introduced Bill 173 in order to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by requiring all single - serve coffee pods sold in Ontario to be certified compostable.

In 2015, we used the draft FLW Standard to expand our tracking of measurable food waste to eight destinations outlined by the standard, including animal feed, biobased materials / biochemical processing, codigestion / anaerobic digestion, composting, controlled combustion (incineration), land application, landfill, and sewer / wastewater treatment.

Following the unveiling of its # 5.4 million anaerobic digestion plant in 2015, Stowmarket - based Muntons has further improved its environmental credentials by achieving zero waste to landfill.

The zero landfill figure this year was achieved using a number of tactics — initially by trying not to create waste in the first place.

The goal is to make 100 percent of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, with none of its packaging ending up in a landfill or as litter.

Roll out food waste collections across all English local authorities by 2015 and move to ban all organic waste to landfill in England by 2020.

By keeping wholesome and nutritious food in our communities and out of our landfills, we can help address the 42 million Americans that live in food insecure households.

In 2014 alone, our operations implemented projects that reduced the amount of solid waste sent to landfills by 1,500 tons.

By 2002, Stern says, the Ferry Point landfill will have morphed into the first municipal course — there are currently 13 in New York — built in the city in more than 30 years.

Not only are you helping the planet by cloth diapering, but you're also helping the environment by not depositing thousands of disposables in landfill.

According to Kids Konserve,» the amount of trash produced by one child's lunch alone creates 67 pounds of landfill waste in a school year!»

Three key proposals expected in the plan envision ways to create more park and recreational space with a far lower cost and environmental impact than by extending landfill, Gordon said.

In 1993, he helped initiate a lawsuit against Kane County and the Settler's Hill landfill, which is operated by Waste Management, on behalf of the school district.

Life cycle analyses of diapers done by Franklin Associates in the U.S. and the UK's Environment Agency found that using cloth diapers instead of disposables would decrease landfill waste but increase water use and greenhouse gas emissions.

They end up in landfills (unable to biodegrade) by the billions each year.

Although in MHO it is way better than sending thousands of diapers to the landfill or having my baby's tender areas surrounded by chemicals that are now banned in the use of feminine products.

Using reusable cloth diapers will help your baby's future and future generations by greatly reducing the amount of disposables that sit in the landfills for approximately 500 years.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

As just mentioned, your child will probably produce roughly 6000 diapers in the first few years of its life, and every single one of them will end up in the landfill, contributing to the 4.2 million pounds of landfill waste caused every year by diapers.

Green Junction Sentinel, January 28, 2009 Green expo draws hundreds in Grand Junction by Le Roy Standish» Every day human waste, bundled in tiny plastic diapers, is trucked to the Mesa County Landfill.

In the past few years, both companies have reduced the size of their diapers by 35 percent to 50 percent to reduce the volume of diapers in landfillIn the past few years, both companies have reduced the size of their diapers by 35 percent to 50 percent to reduce the volume of diapers in landfillin landfills.