Sentences with phrase «caused by landfilling»

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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.

The FWRA's mission is to reduce the volume of food waste sent to landfill by addressing the root causes of waste, and securing pathways to donate or recycle unavoidable food waste.

«The primary objective of the Food Waste Reduction Alliance is to reduce the volume of food waste sent to landfill by addressing the root causes of waste, and securing pathways to donate safe food or recycle it for use elsewhere.

Its mission is to reduce the volume of food waste sent to landfill by addressing the root causes of waste, and securing pathways to donate or recycle unavoidable food waste.

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.

Breaking the Waste Cycle When avid cyclist and Cycle Dog president Lynette Fidrych recognized the waste caused by her used bicycle inner tubes was simply causing more landfill buildup, she repurposed the material as backing on dog collars.

The environmental devastation caused by manufacturing is horrific, from the chromium contamination of vast regions of northern India by tanneries, to the brimming landfill sites of America, where 11 million tons of clothes are thrown away annually, left to rot and produce methane gas.

The project also improves the air quality in the region by reducing the amount of pollutants emissions contained in the landfill gas such as hydrogen sulphide which an cause nausea, delirium, headaches, and skin and eye irritation.