Sentences with phrase «more incinerators»

Officials are talking about needing to build more incinerators, but these are not a sustainable solution.

As the New York Times» Mike Nizza noted, a long - term solution, which would have to involve recycling, more incinerators and more dumps at the very least, will be difficult to reach given the residents» vehement disapproval of any move taken to clean up the situation.

Not exact matches

Tom Szaky, TerraCycle's founder and chief executive, said the two companies share a vision of diverting more materials from landfills and incinerators and his company is «excited and ready to accept Progressive Waste Solutions» challenge to scale our operations and impact using their vast infrastructure.»

* Meeting or exceeding Zero Waste International Alliance business recognition program requirements, which include adoption of ZWIA definition of Zero Waste and achievement of 90 per cent or more diversion of all discarded resources from landfills, incinerators and the environment.

In the United States, EPA estimates that more food reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material in our everyday trash, about 21 percent of the waste stream.

These projects are unnecessary, the region doesn't need to store more propane and the incinerator is about burning other people's garbage, not producing electricity.

Both are part of a team pushing a bill that would give the town of Romulus more authority to decide the fate of the trash incinerator project.

In the United States, of course, we are somewhat beholden to higher tech solutions, which in some ways are a little bit more problematic in terms of treating all that waste, and we need autoclaves or incinerators that can handle that sort of thing.

U.S. EPA estimates that in 2009, more than 82 percent of discarded electronics went to landfills and incinerators.

The Navy has financed research into compactors, shredders and plastics processors as well as more exotic concepts such as molten salt and plasma arc incinerators that would treat a ship's waste while it is at sea.

«New York City officials claim it is more expensive to recycle than to send trash to landfills and incinerators for disposal, and that they have to weigh those costs against environmental goals.»

The NSF began burning food waste in a primitive incinerator in October 1991, and planned to start operating a more advanced incinerator this year.

Every day we are also bombarded by chemicals from industry, waste incinerators, air travel, household cleaning products, building materials, cigarette smoke and way more.

The incinerators used to cremate euthanized pets cost more than the basic equipment needed for a spay / neuter surgery room, and a «euthanasia room» is not cheaper to build than a room destined for use for spay / neuter.

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More food - we're talking roughly one - fifth of discarded municipal solid waste - reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material comprising our everyday trash, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency.

As documented by UN and GAO reports, the carbon market paid about 100 times more for the installation of emissions reducing equipment (an HCFC 23 incinerator) than the price of the equipment.

As a staffer at Greenpeace International, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Health Care Without Harm and Essential Action she traveled to more than 40 countries, visiting factories and dumps, training local activists and exposing the international toxic waste trade.

After the user abandons the practice of yoga or moves on to a new mat the PVC mat may be sent to a landfill, where it will sit for thousands of years, or even worse, and incinerator, where it will release more of the noxious and toxic gases described earlier.

One of their projects, now under construction, is a giant waste - to - energy (the modern cleaner sounding name for a garbage incinerator) facility in Copenhagen that has a park and ski run on the roof, (lots more on TreeHugger here) and was designed to have a big smoke ring puff up every time the building released a tonne of carbon dioxide.

Over the past 20 years, more than 80 billion bottles and cans have been returned and recycled through New York's bottle bill, and more than five million tons of plastic, glass and metal have been kept out of New York's landfills and incinerators.

• 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.

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