Sentences with phrase «from landfill waste»

Though not yet ready for commercial production, the Indiana - based company says that it has developed a bio-aviation fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae and wood chips which it says will be cheaper to produce and perform better than current aviation fuels.

So it's little wonder that Australian airline Qantas is about to launch a GB # 200m (about US$ 300m) venture to make biofuels from landfill waste.

Given the time I had and in wading through literally reams of paper and data, I have also attempted to present the case for diversion but may just be another voice crying out in the wilderness since there seems to be no true interest in diverting materials from the landfill waste stream.

This paper makes the environmental and economic case for diverting paper fiber from the landfill waste stream, to be used as a fuel in electric generation plants.

Think living machines that produce energy from landfill waste, biological sensors that detect dirty water or bacterial production lines that churn out drugs.

«Bio-methane transforms from landfill waste to energy source.»

Not exact matches

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

Embattled restaurant chain Chipotle shared its goal of to divert half of all of its restaurant waste from landfills by 2020.

«We look forward to working with our Members and Metro Vancouver on building an integrated solid waste management plan that will continue to increase diversion from landfill, maximize recycling rates, and harnesses the competitive power of the private sector,» he added.

of waste from landfills across the country.

Walmart Canada has programs in place to divert more than a dozen waste - streams from landfill.

According to Walmart's Global Responsibility Report, the retailer has diverted 77 % of waste from unsold food, other unsold products, and materials from landfill through a variety of initiatives including food donations, repurposing products, and composting.

A Christian conservation charity has called for action from individuals and government after new figures revealed the amount of waste we're sending to landfill or incineration has doubled in the last three years.

We focus on four things for this — carefully planning quantities, giving any wastage from the delis to local community causes, using leftover veg in other dishes, and using companies that turn waste into fertilisers rather than just adding it to landfill.

This would employ a wider range of technologies including anaerobic digestion, solar panels and battery storage, and Cory claims it would divert an additional 650,000 tonnes of residual waste from landfill every year.

Mary Del Ciancio, from the Canadian Packaging Magazine, commented on the PurPod100: «This is a win - win for consumers who get to enjoy the coffee they love, the convenience of being able to compost the entire pod, and the peace of mind knowing that waste isn't going to a landfill.»

A recycling program by Kimberly - Clark Professional has helped two Midwest universities divert almost 3 tons of waste from landfill by turning used lab gloves and garments into shelving, flowerpots and lawn and garden furniture.

Along with contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Pernod Ricard's 2020 Roadmap includes reducing its waste to landfill from 913 tons today to zero by 2020.

In addition, the facility diverts 99 percent of waste away from landfills, and features energy - efficient lighting, motors, compressors and electrical system components that calculate maximum efficiencies.

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.

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.

Focusing on food waste prevention also allowed the store to reduce the number of dumpsters the store sent to the landfill weekly from six to one, which reduces our waste disposal costs.

We continue to have more confidence in the metrics we are using to evaluate our progress and recently started tracking our progress on a quarterly basis using three metrics: tonnes of food waste per sales, percentage of food waste recycled (i.e., diverted from landfill), and tonnes of food donated.

Our conversations now are about reducing packaging, reducing waste, eliminating landfill and reducing energy consumption from a position that creates a win for all the stakeholders.

Our recycling and packaging teams created a reverse haul waste management solution, which allowed the retailer's own logistics fleet to collect 100 % of the wet and dry waste from stores and divert all of it from landfill.

Strategy for emissions from landfills and other waste activities not covered by the operation of a future Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

«If we can get just 1 % of coffee drinkers to replace their plastic cup solutions with the high - quality coffee in our Tayst pods, we could reduce waste and divert up to 100 million pods away from landfills,» challenges Byrnes.

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.

We know that there is no «one size fits all» solution for food waste, but we also know that some parts of the U.S. have high donation rates and / or many options for diverting food waste from landfills.

Nearly 160 facilities from Hawaii to New England are now diverting 94 percent of their waste from landfills by using innovative approaches and partnerships to minimize their environmental impact.

The beverage companies» aim however is to eliminate waste to landfill from all its U.S. production facilities.

Amy Kirkland from the Food Waste Reduction Alliance said that landfill should be the last resort for food waste.

Each company is working to eliminate waste to landfills; 94 % of waste from our manufacturing plants is being recycled and diverted from landfills.

The analysis demonstrates how the industry operating environments are recognizably different, but survey respondents cited common barriers that prevented them from diverting more food waste from landfill.

Food manufacturers diverted 94.6 percent of food waste generated from landfills to higher uses, such as donation and recycling.

The retail / wholesale sector diverted the majority (55.6 percent) of food waste generated from landfills to higher uses.

Tuesday's meeting highlighted that the way to do that is through education, measurement and partnerships up and down the supply chain, working together to find opportunities to generate less waste, recycle unavoidable food waste (like peels and rinds), diverting it from landfills, and get food to those who need it.

Our goal is to send zero waste to landfill from our factories globally by 2020.

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.

Darden's goal to one day send zero waste to landfill is ambitious — and challenging — and achieving it will require finding innovative solutions for diverting all waste streams coming from our restaurants.

Though we still have a ways to go, we're working with partners to find ways to divert waste from landfills and put it toward better use, such as recycling or donating it to those in need.

Currently we are diverting waste from landfills through food donation, organic recycling, energy recovery from cooking oil, and mixed and cardboard recycling.

We're extremely proud of that achievement because it means that less than 1 % of waste from all five West Liberty Foods facilities ends up in a landfill.

Recycle unavoidable food waste by diverting it away from landfills to more productive uses, including animal feed, compost or food to energy.»

For many years, the company has had formal strategies to divert food waste from landfill through donation, animal feed and compost.

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.

That's a dramatic improvement, but there still remains room for growth, so FMI remain firmly committed to our Alliance's goals to divert food waste from landfills by 1) Reducing the amount of food waste generated, 2) Repurposing through increased donations, and 3) Recycling food waste that can't be avoided.

Spar Austria gave insights into how retailers are working with food banks to re-direct food waste from landfill.

It contains 90 % coffee by weight, with diversion of this nitrogen - rich food from landfills and the recycling stream supporting achievement of waste diversion and greenhouse - gas targets;

During our first generation of sustainability commitments from 2005 to 2016, Kellogg significantly reduced waste (of all types) sent to landfill.