Sentences with phrase «going to landfill in»

«We have reduced our waste by 60 percent going to the landfill in the last six months,» Bosma notes.

It describes a city investing in energy and resource effectiveness, with falling water consumption and only two per cent of municipal waste going to landfill in 2010.

Proponents say the scheme would encourage recycling and divert many of the one billion plastic bottles that go to landfill in Australia each year.

Initiating a winery - wide single - stream recycling program, and installing a plastic bailer resulting in a 62 % reduction of the winery's solid waste going to landfills in the first year.

As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills in the US, accounting for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate change as food waste in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas.

It's one of the most popular cell phone donation programs and has prevented over 11.6 million phones from going to landfills in the decade since it started.

Not exact matches

The dizzying array of 50 goals includes stopping all nonhazardous waste going to landfills, training 5 million women, and halving the water waste in its factories.

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.

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.

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.

Major food and grocery retailers in Australia have partnered with food recovery organisations and committed to reducing the amount of food waste that goes to landfill.

For example, by 2020 no general waste will go to landfill, compared with 13 % in 2008, and product packaging will be 100 % recyclable.

In 2010 alone, the FWRA estimates that around 60 million tons of food waste was generated in the U.S., of which nearly 40 million tons went to landfilIn 2010 alone, the FWRA estimates that around 60 million tons of food waste was generated in the U.S., of which nearly 40 million tons went to landfilin the U.S., of which nearly 40 million tons went to landfill.

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.

Companies across sectors have a difficult time measuring exactly how much of their waste stream is organic material and further understanding of how much of it is good, nutritious food that could go to those in need or be turned into energy or composted, as opposed to being sent to landfill.

Wherever you go, tell your server you are skipping the straw today in order to help divert waste from our ever growing landfills!

The Ipswich City Council says China's import ban on recycling and the rising level of contaminated rubbish in yellow bins means it's too costly to recycle properly, so all its recycling will go straight to landfill.

Instead, the waste remains in the diaper and goes off to the landfill.

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.

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.

We're not in a hurry for him to go diaper - free 24/7 but we're quite happy with not only because of the money we're saving but also because there'd be fewer diapers added into the landfills.

Once I learned where fast fashion clothes come from (mostly overseas made by underage workers with little regulation), and where they go once they inevitably fall apart (in landfills), I vowed to be more mindful in my clothing purchases.

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.

According to some, without a buyer, our bailed recycled materials will sit in storage before eventually going into the landfill.

The Task Force report, completed in November 1996, provided a framework for the closure, including recommendations for increased recycling efforts by the city and a five year schedule for reducing the amount of waste going to the landfill.

Landfill as a means of waste disposal goes back to the dawn of civilisation, with archaeologists having discovered sites in the vicinity of the Minoan capital of Knossos on Crete dating back to 3,000 BC.

The latest construction industry waste figures show that the industry is continuing to make good progress with regard to reducing the amount of construction and demolition waste going to landfill, even allowing for the decline in construction activity due to the recession.

Another suggestion is that the decline in domestic waste going to landfill has accelerated the closure of a number of less profitable landfill sites and inert material, such as soils and stones, is required to fill the voids and restore these sites.

However, the news was disappointing in regard to excavation waste, primarily soil and stones, which has seen a sharp increase by 2.4 million tonnes in the amounts going to landfill.

U.S. EPA estimates that in 2009, more than 82 percent of discarded electronics went to landfills and incinerators.

Food waste is the single largest component going into municipal landfills in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

«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.

In order to win back my coveted open space and make the room usable, I was going to have to get rid of a lot, and I couldn't bear to have it all just end up in the landfilIn order to win back my coveted open space and make the room usable, I was going to have to get rid of a lot, and I couldn't bear to have it all just end up in the landfilin the landfill.

Growing up in Chicago, we would go to Wisconsin and ski on old landfills that were essentially man - made «mountains.»

The boys then come back to the States and recruit college drinking buddies Fink (Steve Lem me), Landfill (Kevin Heffernan), and drinking game legend - turned - prostitute Barry («Beerfest» director Jay Chandrasekhar) to go back to Beerfest in a year's time and bring the title to the US, who has never even been invited to the competition in the past.

Simply putting furniture in a skip has the least benefit to the environment as most will go to landfill.

After you throw out that bag of used clay litter, it's going to spend eternity sitting in a landfill.

That said, no matter which litter is used, both it and the scooped contents are going to end up in a landfill.

In some states, medical wastes must go to medical waste landfills.

By donating shoes to Noah's Ark Animal Foundation, the shoes will be given a second chance, make a difference in people's lives and reduce what goes into landfills.

To be successful, we have to provide good service to our wood suppliers, balance the supply coming in with the market for products going out and find customers for every portion of the raw material so none goes to waste or to the landfilTo be successful, we have to provide good service to our wood suppliers, balance the supply coming in with the market for products going out and find customers for every portion of the raw material so none goes to waste or to the landfilto provide good service to our wood suppliers, balance the supply coming in with the market for products going out and find customers for every portion of the raw material so none goes to waste or to the landfilto our wood suppliers, balance the supply coming in with the market for products going out and find customers for every portion of the raw material so none goes to waste or to the landfilto waste or to the landfilto the landfill.

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

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations came into force in January 2007 and aim to reduce the amount of this waste going to landfill and improve recovery and recycling rates.

Whether that means turning coffee cans into fastener organizers, mason jars into terrariums, or an orange peel into a candle, upcycling saves the need to go out to the store while preventing waste from ending up in the landfill.

In two short weeks we saved over 45,000 plastic bottles and over 19,000 disposable cups from going to the landfill.

Each time you participate in a Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Course, or purchase one of our course books, you now have the option to contribute funds which will go directly toward supporting projects and programs that include forest management, renewable energy projects, waste heat capture and landfill gas management.

The film starts with the Environmental Protection Agency's food waste pyramid, which explains the ideal order in which food should be used: 1) to feed people, 2) feed livestock, 3) generate energy, 4) create nutrient - rich soil, and 5) go 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.»

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).