School catering and vending operator Options Management Ltd. — another AVA member company — recognise that vending, as a service, brings to the market a range of drinks and snacks which are packaged — and packaging has long been the focus of the green lobby because much of it still
goes to landfill when it could be recycled.
Not exact matches
And
when it comes
to food,
when we have all our great church dinners, make just enough food
to go around, One of the worst causes of methane in the air is
when we take a lot of food from church suppers and throw it away and put it into
landfills.
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.
Fox21 Colorado Springs / Puebo, April 30, 2008 Diapers
go green by Christina Salvo «
When it comes
to dirty diapers many parents may think they can't be thrown away fast enough, but a local look at our
landfills tells a different story.»
When the liner is soiled, it is flushed down the toilet into the sewage system instead of
going to the
landfill.
When the
going gets tough — like after you've been on vacation using disposable diapers for a week and you just can't seem
to get back
to using the cloth — think about those
landfills.
«Love Your Tent, take it with you
when you've finished the festival, because you can't recycle, it all
goes to landfill.»
«
When you consider the 6 billion cups of tea that are brewed up every year in the UK, we are looking at around 150 tonnes of polypropylene — that's an enormous amount of accumulated plastic waste that is either contaminating food waste compost collections or simply
going to landfill.»
When people get a new computer, often their old computer ends up
going to the
landfill.
When we throw things «away»
to a
landfill they don't really
go anywhere.
Putting wheels on it for easy transport home, Ballhatchet designed the areas that the screen occupied inside the package
to be used as shelves for the TV stand (the wheels come off and
go underneath), and the result is the first large appliance packaging we've seen that won't end up in the recycle bin or
landfill when you get it unpacked.
«Future archaeologists will be able
to identify a «Vista Upgrade Layer»
when they
go through our
landfill sites.»
Landfill methane was modeled using a forecast of municipal solid waste
going to landfills of a dynamic fractionation: the degradable carbon content that would be anaerobically broken down was measured, and assumptions were made as
to when and what portion of resultant methane could and would be captured and combusted for electricity generation.