Sentences with phrase «landfill waste by»

These initiatives helped the NCC reduce its Canada Day landfill waste by 29 % and avoid the potential production of nearly two and a half tonnes of carbon emissions from landfills.

Cloth diapering also significantly reduces annual landfill waste by 6,000 diapers per child.

Women can reduce dangerous landfill waste by choosing to use a reusable, silicone menstrual cup.

Not exact matches

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

So perhaps it's not a surprise that when he was working on the floor of a Cambridge, Ont., vinyl manufacturer in the early 2000s, he was struck by the sheer quantity of waste foam that the company shipped off to the landfill due to minor defects.

Georgiou Group has taken a proactive approach to avoid the slated increase in landfill levies, by recycling more than 90 per cent of the waste produced on its building sites.

Embattled restaurant chain Chipotle shared its goal of to divert half of all of its restaurant waste from landfills by 2020.

«Reducing food waste benefits communities by sending less food to landfill, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the resources required to meet food demand, and enhancing food security,» said Kathleen McLaughlin, chief sustainability officer, Wal - Mart Stores, Inc., and president of the Walmart Foundation.

A recycling program by Kimberly - Clark Professional has helped two Midwest universities divert almost 3 tons of waste from landfill by turning used lab gloves and garments into shelving, flowerpots and lawn and garden furniture.

Along with contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Pernod Ricard's 2020 Roadmap includes reducing its waste to landfill from 913 tons today to zero by 2020.

For example, French's manufacturing site in Springfield, Mo. sends zero waste to landfills by recycling all excess plastic and paper materials and contributing food waste to be used as animal feed.

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

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

This means that less than 1 % of the total waste generated by the plant is used in landfill.

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

Strategy for emissions from landfills and other waste activities not covered by the operation of a future Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

The food processing industry's peak body, the Australian Food and Grocery Council, has a target to reduce waste to landfill by 40 per cent by 2020.

90 % less waste production: The marketing toolbox doesn't use toners and minimises the impact on the environment, reducing landfill by up to 90 %...

Measures put in place by The Coca - Cola Company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and PepsiCo diverted 330,000 tons of waste from landfills in 2015.

Nearly 160 facilities from Hawaii to New England are now diverting 94 percent of their waste from landfills by using innovative approaches and partnerships to minimize their environmental impact.

90 % less waste production: The marketing toolbox doesn't use toners and minimises the impact on the environment, reducing landfill by up to 90 % compared with toner printing.

The FWRA's mission is to reduce the volume of food waste sent to landfill by addressing the root causes of waste, and securing pathways to donate or recycle unavoidable food waste.

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

«The primary objective of the Food Waste Reduction Alliance is to reduce the volume of food waste sent to landfill by addressing the root causes of waste, and securing pathways to donate safe food or recycle it for use elsewhere.

Our goal is to send zero waste to landfill from our factories globally by 2020.

«Approximately 80 billion pounds of food waste is discarded in U.S. landfills each year and the issue is now getting national attention following the announcement of USDA and EPA's first - ever national food waste reduction goals in September,» said Patti Olenick, Sustainability Manager for Weis Markets, Inc. «In order to achieve a 50 - percent reduction by 2030, corporations everywhere will be looking to do their part.

Its mission is to reduce the volume of food waste sent to landfill by addressing the root causes of waste, and securing pathways to donate or recycle unavoidable food waste.

Recycle unavoidable food waste by diverting it away from landfills to more productive uses, including animal feed, compost or food to energy.»

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.

Stasz cited statistics showing that confusion around product date labeling accounts for only about eight percent of total food waste sent to landfills by consumers.

That's a dramatic improvement, but there still remains room for growth, so FMI remain firmly committed to our Alliance's goals to divert food waste from landfills by 1) Reducing the amount of food waste generated, 2) Repurposing through increased donations, and 3) Recycling food waste that can't be avoided.

Kellogg has reduced waste sent to landfill by more than 60 percent since 2005, including food waste, and remains committed to ensuring edible food waste is donated to feed people in need, when appropriate.

GMA member companies have been working hard to minimize food waste by reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfills and donating food to those in need, she testified.

He introduced Bill 173 in order to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by requiring all single - serve coffee pods sold in Ontario to be certified compostable.

It contains 90 % coffee by weight, with diversion of this nitrogen - rich food from landfills and the recycling stream supporting achievement of waste diversion and greenhouse - gas targets;

In 2015, we used the draft FLW Standard to expand our tracking of measurable food waste to eight destinations outlined by the standard, including animal feed, biobased materials / biochemical processing, codigestion / anaerobic digestion, composting, controlled combustion (incineration), land application, landfill, and sewer / wastewater treatment.

Following the unveiling of its # 5.4 million anaerobic digestion plant in 2015, Stowmarket - based Muntons has further improved its environmental credentials by achieving zero waste to landfill.

The zero landfill figure this year was achieved using a number of tactics — initially by trying not to create waste in the first place.

Banning food waste from landfill makes economic sense — guest foreword by Dustin Benton Green Alliance (p 3.)

Through educational newsletters / meetings as well as facility container improvements, reductions allowed for a decrease to one trash pickup per week and solid waste to landfill was reduced by 42 percent compared to the previous year.

Roll out food waste collections across all English local authorities by 2015 and move to ban all organic waste to landfill in England by 2020.

In 2014 alone, our operations implemented projects that reduced the amount of solid waste sent to landfills by 1,500 tons.

It also aligns with the commitment Sodexo made last Spring for zero waste to landfill by 2025.

According to Green Halloween, if just half of the children who celebrate Halloween swapped costumes instead of choosing new ones, annual landfill waste would be reduced by 6,250 tons, which is equivalent to the weight of 2,500 midsize cars!

This Western interpretation of a traditional Japanese Hapi coat was inspired by the plethora of plastic shopping bags that fill our landfills, blow across our streets, and waste our limited...

You'll save yourself so much money by doing this, and you won't be stuffing the landfill full of waste.

According to Kids Konserve,» the amount of trash produced by one child's lunch alone creates 67 pounds of landfill waste in a school year!»

I hope many parents adopt this and if by any chance, they visit a landfill, they will know why and how necessary it is for waste disposal.

Life cycle analyses of diapers done by Franklin Associates in the U.S. and the UK's Environment Agency found that using cloth diapers instead of disposables would decrease landfill waste but increase water use and greenhouse gas emissions.