Sentences with phrase «landfill waste caused»

As just mentioned, your child will probably produce roughly 6000 diapers in the first few years of its life, and every single one of them will end up in the landfill, contributing to the 4.2 million pounds of landfill waste caused every year by diapers.

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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.
We focus on four things for this — carefully planning quantities, giving any wastage from the delis to local community causes, using leftover veg in other dishes, and using companies that turn waste into fertilisers rather than just adding it to landfill.
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.
«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.
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.
The disposal of conventional paints causes landfill and groundwater contamination, whereas low - and zero - VOC paints are not considered hazardous waste materials.
Breaking the Waste Cycle When avid cyclist and Cycle Dog president Lynette Fidrych recognized the waste caused by her used bicycle inner tubes was simply causing more landfill buildup, she repurposed the material as backing on dog collars.
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