Sentences with phrase «materials go to the landfills»

People with wasteful minds like you wish useful materials go to the landfills choking our enviroment make me sick.

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«Up to 40 percent of the U.S. food supply goes wasted; it costs the U.S. $ 165 billion annually; contributes to 14 percent of domestic greenhouse gas emissions; and is the No. 1 material reaching landfills,» he explains.

Packaging that goes to the landfill is targeted for replacement by recyclable, reusable and renewable materials.

Companies across sectors have a difficult time measuring exactly how much of their waste stream is organic material and further understanding of how much of it is good, nutritious food that could go to those in need or be turned into energy or composted, as opposed to being sent to landfill.

According to some, without a buyer, our bailed recycled materials will sit in storage before eventually going into the landfill.

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.

Senator Office Furniture (www.senator.co.uk), whilst primarily an office furniture manufacturer, operates a sophisticated recycling programme whereby they take all types of unwanted furniture and ensure that the maximum possible amount of materials are recycled instead of going to landfill.

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Reducing construction by using fewer raw materials and recycled - content products whenever possible means less waste going to our landfills.

Up until now, the mattress company that provides the wool offcuts had no use for this material; it went to landfill.

CrossIron Mills has diverted 23 tonnes of organic materials from going to the landfill through its Organics Recycling program.

One company taking advantage of this is City Design, a construction, remodeling and environmental remediation company that builds tiny homes from leftover construction materials that normally go to landfills.

In some areas, regional recycling facilities accept commingled waste and separate the recyclable materials from those that must go to the landfill.

Essentially, they're seeking design entries for buildings that minimize waste, reuse materials, cut greenhouse gas emissions and support cost - effective disassembly by anticipating the future reuse of building materials, and they'll also accept designs for innovative green building materials that cut down on waste that goes to landfills.

The worst - case scenario is that some material collected for recycling could go to incineration or landfill.»

According to a recent TreeHugger article, nearly 25 % of all materials going into landfills today could be composted instead.

They usually go to waste in a landfill despite the fact that most of its materials are recyclable.