Sentences with phrase «does go to the landfill»

Organic waste that does go to the landfill doesn't get the chance to decompose properly due to the lack of oxygen, which produces methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

Not exact matches

We didn't want to just chuck them out and have them go to landfill though so we did a bit of research into companies that help with this and came across Herne Hill Waste Collective, which is local to our kitchen.

While this may be true, Dawn is quick to add that all batteries should be disposed of at recycling sites, something that clearly doesn't happen often enough — 240 million batteries go to landfill each year.

items flushed down the loo does not go straight to the landfill.

I'm sure I don't need to talk about the 27.4 billon disposable diapers that go into US landfills every year, do I?

Regardless of the system you use (gdiapers, prefolds na dcovers, AIOs, etc.), it is less harmful on the environment, becuase instead of 6000 diapers per child going to the landfill (which is the average for a newborn to potty train), only a couple of dozen (if that) go into the landfill, and that's AFTER you use the cloth for all your children, something you can't do with ANBY disposables on the market.

I silently do the math in my head knowing they're going to pay $ 50 - $ 60 on something they'll throw away and have to buy again in a couple of weeks; something that will sit excessively in a landfill for ages.

And then you don't have a wastebasket full of bloody tissues sitting around waiting to go to the landfill.

«So, there is a very intimate connection between what people put in their trash and what comes out of landfills, but people also need to think about the fate of what doesn't go into the trash,» Pierrehumbert said.

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management pathways (such as recycling or incineration) is thought to end up in the ocean.

So yes I agree, they don't stand behind there product and would rather see them go to landfill then fix them.

All they'll do for years if not centuries is clutter up a landfill where they're sure to go.

Both aluminium and steel are easy to recycle and there are huge environmental benefits for doing this - yet many cans still go to landfill.

I'm sure that is a big issue for such scientists and has public repercussions, but admittedly I did not have the interest to read up on it, and it's time we accept the fact that most people aren't going to unless it personally influences them (whether it be climate change, mercury pollution, mudslides, landfills genocide in Africa, etc etc).

Many landfills are approaching capacity, and in the desert where I love you don't have to go far to see society's discards.

It saddens me that not only do we waste food in terms of it going from plate to landfill, but we lose the additional benefit of harvesting food scraps» potential by composting.

The article then goes on to say that environmental officials get excited because the fuel is much cleaner than coal and could save landfill space, but faces hurdles since... «The state doesn't currently issue permits for the «processed fuel»...» Did someone hear a primal scream?

According to a report done by the University of Hawaii, the island has over 67 thousand tons of waste that goes into just one of the island's landfills.

When we throw things «away» to a landfill they don't really go anywhere.

This is a huge step in the recognition of the work cartoneros have done for the city's environment: every day, they collect tons of paper and plastics that they later take to recycling facilities; preventing that waste to go to landfills.

I do keep asking why it is a good thing to put this scrap into a countertop instead of recycling it; In 2008 Demir told me that» flake aluminum milling scrap burns before it melts, and has to be expensively compressed before it can be recycled, so it usually goes into landfills.»

They go to extra lengths to make sure the devices are scrubbed of data so that companies don't risk leaks of proprietary information, and they also make sure that no gadget that enters the facilities are ever redirected to landfills.

Even if your city doesn't have a plan for food waste collection, you can still cut down on the amount that goes to landfill by starting your own compost bin or pile.

A lot of those 12 daily tons of waste still get landfilled, and all the waste and recycling has to go back to the mainland, to the landfill or to the recycling center; the only thing that doesn't leave is the organic waste, which is composted, or the biomedical waste (mostly from the hospital) which is burned on site.