Sentences with phrase «kept out of the landfill»

This reduced the amount of trash generated at the facility and ensured that materials with recyclable value are kept out of landfills.

make use of goodwill, freecycle, and craigs list to purge your crap and keep it out of the landfill 10.

But even if the economic drivers are such that you can use these new engineered materials, the idea is to keep them out of the landfills.

But the EPA's standard does nothing to prevent e-waste export or keep it out of landfills, nor does it offer any tracking of toxic components to ensure proper disposal.

Consumers across North America can do the right thing and conveniently recycle their used batteries and cellphones to keep them out of landfills.

I love reusing items and keeping them out of the landfill.

Then the publishers could send those books for recycling, thus keeping them out of landfills and taking them off the used book market.

They will make your un-needed technology available to those who can use it, while keeping it out of the landfill.

Another approach to creating a more eco-friendly litter is keeping it out of landfills all together.

Keeps them out of the landfill too.

I also have a free pile — same concept — keep it out of the landfill.

«I kept it out of the landfill and out of my basement.»

The last event saw 23 tons of old electronics collected and kept out of landfill.

Over 1,200 batteries and hundreds of cell phones were collected - keeping them out of landfills and your groundwater.

That's a lot of footwear kept out of landfill, plus it keeps 12 year round employees busy (some weeks 700 sandals arrive on the doorstep.)

Extraneous packaging and poor packaging design are a couple of TreeHugger's least favorite things, so we're always glad to see examples of better packaging and creative ways to reuse old packaging and keep it out of the landfill.

Certainly, any plastic we can keep out of the landfills and oceans is great, for whatever time that item is reused or recycled.

Its amazing what could be kept out of the landfill if more people thought the same way.

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By converting to a digital system, you are doing your part to keep paper out of the landfills and off the floormats of our cars, while at the same time saving yourself a pretty penny.

Lunapads was already producing a line of reusable, sustainable menstrual pads made of soft, quick - drying fleece, targeted to middle - and upper - income women seeking to keep mountains of pads and tampons out of landfills.

As a result, they're kept out of grocery stores and food service deliveries — and tossed in the landfill.

The mission: keep those PCs (and the lead, mercury, cadmium, and other toxic substances they contain) out of local landfills.

The products» longer lifespan will also keep more fans out of landfills.

John Strelitz, president of paper broker Streco Fibres, in Virginia Beach, Va., keeps paper out of landfills by buying, for example, scrap magazine stock and selling it to the gift - wrap market.

Romy Tittel, Leader of the Green Party of Alberta and Catriona Wright, Shadow Cabinet member for Sustainable Towns and Cities, strongly encourages the Alberta Government to quickly adopt the following in order to keep recyclables out of the landfill: An immediate plastic bag ban.

Resale stores keep unwanted items out of landfills and extend their use by offering them to new customers.

«We feel pretty good about keeping those bottles out of the landfill.»

Tavill says much of the effort has been focused around keeping packaging out of landfills.

WHEREAS compostable coffee pods help keep food waste out of landfill, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and

Keeping food waste out of landfills will result in reduced methane emissions.

The FWRA toolkit focuses on strategies food manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators can employ to keep food out of landfills, and to reduce food waste at the source.

Compiled by FWRA, a cross-sector industry initiative led by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the National Restaurant Association (NRA), the guide focuses on strategies food manufacturers, retailers and restaurant and foodservice operators can employ to keep food out of landfills, and to reduce food waste at the source.

Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

The presentations include information on the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, liability protection for food donation, the food recovery hierarchy, and innovative ways to keep retailer food waste out of landfills.

Using recycled glass in the manufacturing process allows glass container manufacturers to significantly reduce energy consumption, reduce their carbon footprint and helps keep glass out of landfills.»

In fact, consumers who purchase our reusable glass bottles help keep approximately 500,000 pounds of milk containers and plastic out of the landfill each year.

Keep unnecessary waste out of landfills.

By keeping wholesome and nutritious food in our communities and out of our landfills, we can help address the 42 million Americans that live in food insecure households.

Reducing food waste is important as it keeps food out of landfills, reduces emissions of methane, and has other environmental impacts.

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.

If you make your own foods, you can reuse your storage containers and help keep the pouches out of the landfills.

We passed the money - saving threshold ages ago, but my other motives for starting cloth still hold strong: I'm still keeping waste out of landfills and I'm still limiting my baby's exposure to chemicals.

Enjoy cloth diapers and the good feeling that comes from keeping chemicals off your baby's skin and diapers out of landfills.

It keeps textiles out of landfills.

This way you'll save money and keep good stuff out of the landfill.

«You're keeping trash and human waste out of landfills, saving money, and it's better for the baby.»

From wheels to axles and even stroller fabrics, you can keep your Bumbleride out of the landfill just a little longer.

If we keep filling up our landfills with garbage and disposable products (like diapers) we will run out of landfill space.

(Plus you'll keep one ton of waste out of the landfill for each child that you cloth diaper!)

Cloth diapers keep more trash (and human waste) out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.