Sentences with phrase «large incinerator»

By contrast, the US spent five years building a large incinerator for its chemical weapons on Johnston Island, a coral atoll in the Pacific.

Just before winning the Goldman Environmental Prize in April, we spoke to student activist Destiny Watford to learn how — together with student group Free Your Voice — she united her community to stop the nation's largest incinerator from breaking ground near her high school in Curtis Bay, Baltimore.

Not exact matches

«Within our new Environmental Services segment, incinerator utilization in the first quarter was seasonally strong at 87 %, while landfill volumes rose 58 % from the same period a year ago, driven by a large project and higher base business,» McKim said.

We operate the largest number of hazardous waste incinerators, landfills, wastewater and other treatment facilities, and treatment, storage and disposal facilities in North America.

The administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is unveiling a new proposal that will require the largest generators of food wastes here to arrange for composting of those materials, rather than sending them to landfills or incinerators.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

This saves the cost and hazard of moving them to a large central incinerator.

It outlines how book remainders which were once relegated to the incinerator are now being sold in publisher - owned cafes, eliminating the practice of destroying books that were taking up valuable and highly sought after premium shelf space in larger bookstores.

Destiny Watford, United States: In a community whose environmental rights had long been sidelined to make room for heavy industry, Destiny Watford inspired residents of a Baltimore neighborhood to defeat plans to build the nation's largest trash - burning incinerator less than a mile away from her high school.

In fact, since 2010, food waste is the single largest component of municipal solid waste reaching landfills and incinerators.

Baltimore youth leader, Destiny Watford, is one of the six global winners, for her work to spearhead efforts to stop the nation's largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from her public high school in Curtis Bay.

Together, we celebrated major breakthroughs in the fight to stop the nations» largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from schools.

At NYLPI, Eddie organized numerous grassroots coalitions and campaigns, including the Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods (OWN) and Communities United for Responsible Energy (CURE), two citywide coalitions of community - based organizations which blocked the siting of mega-waste transfer stations, large power plants, incinerators and sludge plants in environmentally - burdened, low income communities of color, while changing City and State solid waste and energy policies.

These monitors happened to be exactly where Energy Answers and the state of Maryland hoped to construct the nation's largest trash - burning incinerator.

Food is the single largest waste stream sent to landfills and incinerators each year in the United States — over 70 billion pounds, which accounts for 21 percent of Americans» everyday trash.

Along with organizations such as the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Philippines and Greenpeace Southeast Asia, we oppose these «waste to energy technologies» because they release large amounts of carbon dioxide that contribute to global warming, along with toxic chemicals that pollute the environment.

The commercial building industry can greatly reduce waste going to landfills and incinerators by targeting two large categories: paper (office paper, paperboard, cardboard) and organics (yard trimmings, food scraps, and wood).

Two of those projects, at an ethanol refinery in Decatur, IL and a municipal solid waste incinerator in Oslo, will help demonstrate the concept of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (known as «BECCS» for short), which climate scientists see as a prime candidate for delivering large - scale carbon removal in the future.

Spatial analysis of health effects of large industrial incinerators in England, 1998 — 2008: a study using matched case — control areas