Sentences with phrase «landfill waste sites»

There were concerns that hybrid vehicles would generate a mountain of unwanted batteries or fill up landfill waste sites.

The countries are aiming to set up a so - called Methane Abatement Facility with pledges of $ 100 million under the auspices of the World Bank to buy and cancel carbon credits, initially from projects that cut emissions at landfill waste sites.

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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.

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 set ambitious targets under Amcor's internal EnviroAction programme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce waste - to - landfill, and have active waste management plans in place in all of our sites.

Landfill Sending material to an area of land or an excavated site that is specifically designed and built to receive wastes

We are building on progress at our production sites to reduce landfill waste, and plan to work more closely with supply partners to ensure that all the packaging we receive can be recycled.

Unilever has reached a new industry - leading achievement of sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill across more than 600 sites, in 70 countries, including factories, warehouses, distribution centres and offices.

This is equivalent to nearly 7000 million miles driven by an average passenger vehicle or 1.03 million tons of waste sent to landfill sites.

«Consequently, waste collection operators are directed to use the landfill site at Owu Elepe in Ikorodu and the second one in Epe.

The senator said it made little sense when the DEC in December 2015 reversed itself by declaring the landfill a Superfund site, even after it had removed 80 truckloads of previously buried Love Canal waste.

Sustainability best practice was considered at every stage of the project and some of the measures included: · at least 90 % of construction and demolition waste was either recycled or diverted from landfill; · a project - specific construction travel plan was devised prior to work on site to reduce road transport movements and deliveries;

Landfills are solid waste disposal sites, where both active and inert waste is deposited and compacted, and then periodically covered over with a layer of soil.

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 site has also made huge improvements in waste reduction including recovery of titanium dioxide from effluent lagoons and recycling of over 2,000 tonnes per year of other process waste previously sent to landfill.

The preliminary decision by the state Department of Environmental Conservation will make it easier for Onondaga County to build its planned amphitheater on the site, which consists of a landfill and hundreds of acres of waste as deep as 80 feet.

In particular, the report found, the agency paid $ 4.6 million to a Western New York landfill, Seneca Meadows, and another $ 3.1 million on fuel for private contractors to haul waste 236 miles to the site without looking for a closer or cheaper disposal facility.

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.

The Oti Landfill site is the destination of all waste generated within the Kumasi metropolis.

Under the third round, generators that burn off methane from landfill sites will receive an average of 3.79 p per kilowatt - hour, operators of waste incinerators will be paid 3.48 p / kWh, and wind farm developers 4.32 p / kWh.

The duo analyzed 370 communities throughout Massachusetts and found that hazardous industrial facilities, power plants, municipal solid waste combustors, toxic waste sites, landfills and trash transfer stations were unequally distributed with respect to income and / or racial composition.

Landfills can make a profit from all their rotting waste and a new patent explains exactly how to make the most out of the stinky garbage sites.

Although solid wastes from all sorts of experiments have been sealed in a landfill, certain liquids, mostly chlorinated solvents, still taint the water that runs under the site.

These landfill sites include a wave of new operations designed to attract solid and hazardous waste from outside the state.

This is yet another example, DFW Chevy lovers, of how GM is continuously striving for improvement and reducing its carbon footprint, and has committed to achieve 25 more landfill - free sites and reduce total waste another 10 percent by 2020.

The main aim of J & B Recycling Ltd is to divert as much waste as possible away from landfill sites and to increase levels of recycling.

The subject of this year's event is food waste and the poster should promote composting as a means of reducing the amount of food waste sent to landfill sites from homes across the country.

Councils are unable to accept liquid paint, as liquid wastes are banned from landfill sites, so if you can't use it up or find it a good home by giving it away you will need to harden it before disposal.

So this landfill just grows higher with the problem delayed for others to resolve in a future crisis since they are still not currently working to divert the waste stream currently land filled, or planning to site a new landfill for the City of Toledo.

According to the Hoffman Road Landfill web site (21), the disposal of Solid Waste (Garbage) at the only Lucas County landfill, will be tipping fees at $ 16 per cubic yard, which equates roughly to over $ 48 / ton since a ton of waste equals about 3.3 cubLandfill web site (21), the disposal of Solid Waste (Garbage) at the only Lucas County landfill, will be tipping fees at $ 16 per cubic yard, which equates roughly to over $ 48 / ton since a ton of waste equals about 3.3 cublandfill, will be tipping fees at $ 16 per cubic yard, which equates roughly to over $ 48 / ton since a ton of waste equals about 3.3 cubic yard.

Did the City seek to divert material from the waste stream to extend the life of the landfill, mandate recycling, or seek another site for a new landfill?

Global beverage company Diageo says it is working towards zero waste to landfill targets at all of its sites by 2015, but is looking to make its waste management activities a higher priority via a...

Ninety - six percent of construction waste was recycled, diverting recovered resources from the landfill back to the manufacturing process and reusable materials to appropriate sites.

The virtual townscape becomes choked with black smoke, dumper - trucks work overtime carrying waste to the landfill site, fires rage.

Through an integrated system, the City of Toronto manages waste at all stages — from its initial generation through to the monitoring of closed landfill sites.

Over 50 percent of the waste created in Europe is thrown away in landfill sites, generating climate damaging methane emissions, which are 20 times worse than carbon dioxide.

We simply refuse to add to the abundance of waste on our streets, in our landfill sites, rivers and oceans.

• Make environmentally - friendly policies for the Games in the areas of procurement and construction binding • Apply water saving technologies across the city • [Pursue a zero - waste policy instead of building] more landfill sites and incinerators • Introduce an internationally recognizable timber procurement policy, such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard, for the construction material used during the Games • Eradicate climate - damaging HFC technology in some Olympic facilities • Make environmental data and certification of Olympic venues fully transparent.

Any Mayor attempting to site a waste incinerator or landfill in or near the city would suffer politically.

Companies must report chemical wastes releases of all types: to the air, to the water, to landfills or deepwells, or sent off - site for disposal or recycling.

A lot of those 12 daily tons of waste still get landfilled, and all the waste and recycling has to go back to the mainland, to the landfill or to the recycling center; the only thing that doesn't leave is the organic waste, which is composted, or the biomedical waste (mostly from the hospital) which is burned on site.

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment.

This was equivalent to nearly 11 years of waste being generated in a single day, overwhelming sanitary landfill sites, which were in place in only five out of 191 municipalities.

For the third time, the courts have rejected the argument that because landfill site operators convert methane (a bi-product of biodegrading waste), into -LSB-...]

The transaction involved the acquisition of a waste landfill site with a value of only C$ 6 million, falling well below the notification threshold for mandatory merger review under the Competition Act.

Our work also involves handling siting disputes for hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities; landfills; utilities; and chemical and manufacturing plants.

About Blog Carryoncomposting.com is a web site devoted to composting kitchen and garden waste as part of the effort to promoting recycling and reduce t waste sent to landfill.

Are there any existing or proposed waste dumps, disposal sites or landfills in the immediate area?

Add to that the fact that many of South Africa's landfill sites are nearing or have already reached capacity, and you start to realise why sustainable waste management is an absolute necessity.

In addition, the tenants have been instrumental in achieving an 84 per cent waste diversion rate or the equivalent of 41,000 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill sites.