Sentences with phrase «in nearby landfills»
The thing we love most about this eco-friendly company is that they take coffee grounds from local coffee shops, add them to the textiles of their clothing and prevent even more rubbish from ending up in nearby landfills.
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It kicks off with a mercifully cool, clear morning under the Whitestone Bridge in the Bronx's Point Ferry Park, the Empire State Building visible past Riker's Island down the East River, its breeze blowing off any stench from a nearby landfill.
A railroad does not directly touch Big Sky Environmental's landfill, so the company has to transfer waste from the train to trucks in a nearby town.
In rural northern Alabama, NYC has become infamous for about 200 shipping containers full of sewage sludge that came by rail, and have been rotting on train cars for six weeks, stalled on the way to a nearby landfill.
Using the rooftops of town buildings and a nearby landfill that has been capped to house solar panels will give the town all the energy it needs, which in turn will provide greater public safety and lower tax bills, Fleming said.
But, as the report notes, placing plastics in a landfill may simply be storing a problem for the future, as plastic's chemicals often sink into nearby land, contaminating groundwater.
Landfill was considered the best option (after they had to stop just dumping it in the ocean) but all the nearby landfills are at capacity.
Without any recycling facilities nearby, those bottles end up in landfill or in waterways or forests, where they remain forever, leaching into the ground and getting ingested by animals that mistake them for food.