Sentences with phrase «local landfill»

Why the nuclear industry wants to put low - level radioactive waste in local landfills.

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

These efforts have allowed us to divert more than 80 % of our waste from local landfills.

The coal industry also dumped thousands of tons of coal ash in Puerto Rican landfills for years, a common practice that has recently mushroomed into a disaster as local landfills overflow thanks to the territory's financial crisis.

Normally the disposal of the deer carcasses wasn't a problem, but after his truck broke and local landfills cut back on their open hours, the deer have been placed in purgatory: his yard.

For those of you who can't get enough of those Insignia TVs and Dynex DVD players that are put together with scraps of metal found in local landfills, Best Buy is apparently bringing its own tablet device to the market.

It empowers people on a grassroots and local level to take charge and make the world a better place, keeping countless tons of reusable items out of local landfills.

Im sorry but if it comes to light that the black lady in question was gay then she MUST be removed to a gay - jewish cemetary or just toss the skeletal remains in the local landfill.

Truck the the compressed house / bag in the local landfill returning the asbestos to the ground from where it came..

Just one cloth diaper change per day can save 365 disposable diapers from your city's local landfill.

Now the diaper will be thrown in one of the local landfills.

And though it all worked out for us in the end, and I felt totally fine about my decision to abandon the cloth bandwagon and throw my contribution into my local landfill for the sake of my sanity and my baby's comfort, it wasn't a simple road getting from Point Cloth to Point IDGAF.

Recently, the company, in the process of dealing with the scandal and starting up again, dumped tonnes of possibly - tainted beef in a local landfill.

Capital Region communities are seeking action from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on two local landfills.

County leaders on the Solid Waste Committee have directed County Highway Superintendent Phil Krey to meet with the Onondaga Recovery and Resource Agency to discuss a limited agreement that would bring a smaller amount of ash to the local landfill to be used as daily cover for the facility.

Police said Garee called a New York State government office and threatened a member of the Seneca Falls Town Board and a person from Seneca Meadows Inc., which owns the local landfill.

Instead of freezing unwanted crested floatinghearts and bringing them to a local landfill, many homeowners toss them into canals, said Gettys, an assistant professor of agronomy with the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

For example, limited budgets might keep a municipality from installing methane capture at the local landfill in the U.S. Or an oil company might refrain from investing in similar methane capture at its wells because it can make more money investing in opening a new field instead.

PULLMAN, Wash. — How many giant wind turbine blades can your local landfill accommodate?

So what do you do with your yoga mat, if you don't want it decomposing in the local landfill?

Their Adam and Eve moment is cut short by an attack from Morlock - like cannibalistic creatures, who drag them to a secret lair beneath the local landfill where they mine for treasures from the previous civilization.

To make the most of the travel money, Wilson selects free or inexpensive locations such as the Mississippi River, Effigy Mounds National Monument, Luther College, area rock quarries, the local landfill, a nearby bike trail, eco-friendly farms (organic producers), alternative energy users (such as wind and solar power), and more.

Students also take field trips to local landfills, water treatment plants, and sustainable buildings, strengthening their abilities» to understand the depth and breadth of sustainability beyond our school walls.

Anybody wanting to know what those tanneries did with their dyes and carcinogenic chemicals only had to visit the local landfill, the stream that ran through town or the hospital's oncology ward.

Those batteries don't belong in your local landfill.

But when photographer Shannon Johnstone and her husband Anthony started taking the dogs to a local landfill for photo sessions, they started a life - saving mini-movement.

As Johnstone explains in her artistic statement for the project, each week for 18 months she will «bring one dog from the county animal shelter and photograph him / her at the local landfill.»

You'll also feel good knowing you recycled your furniture instead of adding it to your local landfill.

This program has created a significant reduction in the amount of plastic being used in our markets in addition to a huge reduction in our impact on the local landfill.

The local landfill's presence is easily felt here, and its litter is unfortunate.

(Please note that the tree was already dead and excavated from private land for this particular use, instead of being discarded to a local landfill.)

Is there any greater wake up call to our disgusting habits as a species than a trip to the local landfill?

While she was mostly interested in keeping things out of their local landfill, DiRemigio says that the FreeStore, which is located in the annex of a local Methodist church, has also made Transition Town Media much more widely known throughout their local community.

Along with these efforts, the Center also separates compostable, recyclable, and landfill waste to minimize the leftovers heading to local landfills.

, with the operator of the local landfill site.

Okay so biodegradable bed pans are neither here nor there when it comes to your health, but seeing as hospitals have quite a large waste stream (not much that you can just trash when it comes to contaminated objects), this is one more way to keep what they can out of local landfills.

Much of that waste will wind up in local landfills, where it leaches toxic materials back into the earth — substances like lead, cadmium, and arsenic.

Many things that are thrown «away» end up in the ocean, and «away» ends up being not the local landfill but a beach or waterway.

My local landfill captures and flares the methane produced by the decay of my trash in accordance with California law.

By replacing the gas you currently use in your kitchen stove with gas from your local landfill and replacing the natural gas used to fuel a power plant with waste gas from an oil field we could reduce global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by 0.5 %.

I spent some time in September at the local landfill depositing the post modern garage sale furniture that used to furnish my world.

Not only are collectors keeping waste out of their local landfills or incinerators, they can earn money for each piece of waste they send to us, which can then be donated to a charity or non-profit of their choice.

The city of Alamogordo, New Mexico is working on a plan to distribute the over 1,000 Atari 2600 games found in a local landfill that were buried in 1983, including selling some to the general public.

Donating clothes, furniture and other things is an easy way to help people in need, claim a tax deduction and lessen the load on your local landfill.