Sentences with phrase «created by landfill»

By 1906, Ellis Island had grown to over 27 acres; it now included two new islands created by landfill.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

As part of the deal, the de Blasio administration and the sanitation workers» union will create a joint Labor - Management Committee on Productivity, which will review productivity targets related to the mayor's plan, announced last month, to cut all waste from landfills by 2030.

By shopping secondhand, you're preventing another item from going to landfill and saying no to using natural resources to create a new piece of clothing.

Designer Samantha Pynn uses their showpiece kitchen as an inspiration and by recovering older teak pieces with eco-friendly fabrics and redoing the floor plan, she creates a visual harmony between the kitchen and the rest of the space, without spending a lot of money or adding loads to the landfill.

About halfway between New York and Great Neck, just beneath Flushing Bay, stood the towering Corona Dumps, vast mountains of fuel ash that New York had been heaping on swampland beyond the city limits since 1895, in a landfill created by the construction of the Long Island Rail Road.

Not only does the store benefit our shelter, it also benefits the community at large by creating jobs & keeping unused / unwanted items out of our landfill.

It was created in 1986 by the artist Mark di Suvero on an abandoned landfill and illegal dumpsite.

But through the Beach Plastic Cleanup Program, they invest in the collection, processing and integration of beach plastics in new production, creating a market for these materials and diverting them from landfills, the avenue by which these items find their way into oceans and waterways.

In the Northwest, biomass electricity is primarily created by the controlled burning of wood waste that otherwise would be dumped in landfills, burned in open air or left to decompose.

The cost of creating and siting landfills will continue to increase due to more rigid environmental mandates compounded by ever more toxic man made materials and public policy issues, the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome.

Leading up to the Super Bowl Sunday spots, Audi created a series of PSAs offering guidelines against «napkin abuse to save a billion pounds of paper from landfills each year and urging «Mother Nature haters» to save 1,000 pounds of CO2 by unplugging electronics from power strips.

Originally intending to paint the collectors amidst the trash, Muniz quickly found that — in spite of unsanitary conditions, low pay, and economic uncertainty created by continuous efforts to close the landfill — people living and working in Jardim Gramacho were unwilling to give up their homes.

Just love the fact that you used what you had and real leaves in lieu of the fake stuff that is churned out by the industry to get us to spend more money and creates more waste for our landfills.