Sentences with phrase «go to the landfill if»

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Second, I think that if it were to go to a large commercial composting unit of a landfill, then the bag might break down in five to ten years.

However, anything likely to go into a landfill will not meet that test within a year — if ever.

If you are going to throw these diapers out you will be keeping human waster, plastic and other chemicals out of landfills, but to properly decompose these need exposure to sun and air.

According to Elizabeth Rogers, co-author of The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time, «If we all give up one napkin a day, we could save a billion pounds of paper waste from going to landfills each year.»

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.

Even if you only cloth diapered on the weekend when you and your partner are home, you are going to save some money and the environment a few extra diapers that won't be stored in a landfill.

«If we use all these disposable diapers and put them into landfills, our babies are going to have to deal with the environmental issues.»

If you toss them into your trash bin, they'll go straight to the landfill and won't readily break down.

remember tho, even if disposables went biodegradable, they would still need the presence of oxygen and aerobic and anaerobic microbes to break down, something in short supply in landfills.

«If a drug has expired, you've got to throw it away, it goes into a landfill, and you have to get a new prescription.

«Plus, if the toy goes straight to the garbage — and then the landfill — then it's not very eco-friendly, even if it's made out of environmentally friendly ingredients.»

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

If some washable granules go to a septic system they will biodegrade within 9 months, and two years in landfills.

«This equipment, a lot of it is filled with known carcinogens... if it ends up in the landfill it will seep down into the water supply and it becomes part of what you're going to be drinking out of the tap, becomes what you start to breathe,» said Paul Brundage, senior vice president of sales at AnythingIT.

What if, instead of sending chip bags to TerraCycle through the Chip Bag Brigade, you could eat the bag at home to prevent it from going to a landfill?

If you're putting organics out back, probably the best use for that is to put it in our landfills to help us create methane gas to create energy or to bring it to a wheelabrator plant to create energy, because that organic waste is going to have a carbon content that's going to help us create more energy.

If the landfill owners wanted to use the natural gas to generate electricity instead, thereby preventing the methane from entering the atmosphere and displacing the fossil - fueled production of electricity, they would have to go through a costly and lengthy process of obtaining permits from regional, state, and federal officials as well as producing environmental impact reports.

A common complaint we hear about compact fluorescents is that milligram of mercury is going to kill us if it gets into the air or into the 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.