«Using our green manufacturing technologies, these microfactories can transform waste where it is stockpiled and created, enabling local businesses and communities to not only tackle
local waste problems but to develop a commercial opportunity from the valuable materials that are created.»
Not exact matches
These summits will provide college students with the opportunity to have conversations with FRN National and other students in the region that go beyond a surface - level understanding of the issue and apply their knowledge to
local problems around food
waste and hunger.
Nonetheless, landfill is a cheap method of
waste disposal, and despite some of the
problems it has encountered - such as concerns about the leaching of contaminants into
local water supplies - it remains more acceptable to the public than alternatives such as incineration.
The
problem: Overflow and sprayed
waste can find their way into
local wetlands, where fecal matter triggers algal blooms that choke out other aquatic life.
As Indonesia's capital struggles with a mounting trash
problem, one
local man is taking matters into his own hands by recycling plastic
waste into fuel for his scooter.
Last year, five Chinese environmental NGOs performed a seven - month study and found that as many as 27 suppliers to Apple are guilty of pollution
problems, including producing huge quantities of
waste that are not properly handled, leading to complaints from
local communities.
Local farmers can benefit from the biomass supply chain, which can also help prevent potential agricultural
waste problems.
Cities can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously addressing other pressing
local environmental
problems such as air pollution,
waste, and transport, not to mention other challenges such as
local economic development.
In many cities,
local or municipal initiatives exist to collect household
waste and organic refuse from vegetable markets and agro-industries in order to produce compost or animal feed, but one can also find urban farmers who use fresh organic
waste (which may cause environmental and health
problems).
Pragya Seeds Nepal is a Nepali NGO created by young Nepali entrepreneur that is concerned with spreading Zero
Waste over Nepal, supporting the
local economy and the environment through a community - approach of the obvious and worrying
waste problem of this country.
This also contributes to solve solid
waste management
problems at the
local level.
In a report published this last January, the coalition stated that as many as 27 suppliers to Apple are guilty of pollution
problems, including producing huge quantities of
waste that are not properly handled, leading to complaints from
local communities.