Sentences with phrase «more landfill waste»

Not only are we creating more landfill waste, we're adding to the pesticide problem as well.

Not exact matches

In addition to representing 17 percent of the total waste stream, food decomposing in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.

We are living in an enormous fabric of life, where anti-poverty measures may create new pressures caused by excess consumption; where methane emissions increase if we eat more beef or throw food waste in a landfill; where drought leads to forest fires and more carbon; where marginalizing women makes communities less resilient.

Georgiou Group has taken a proactive approach to avoid the slated increase in landfill levies, by recycling more than 90 per cent of the waste produced on its building sites.

Walmart Canada has programs in place to divert more than a dozen waste - streams from landfill.

«The trend towards reducing landfill waste continues as companies are more socially and ecologically conscious,» he explains.

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

We continue to have more confidence in the metrics we are using to evaluate our progress and recently started tracking our progress on a quarterly basis using three metrics: tonnes of food waste per sales, percentage of food waste recycled (i.e., diverted from landfill), and tonnes of food donated.

With a record one in six Americans receiving food assistance and landfills that are increasingly over-burdened, the need to tackle the challenges of food waste has never been more urgent.

The analysis demonstrates how the industry operating environments are recognizably different, but survey respondents cited common barriers that prevented them from diverting more food waste from landfill.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more food reaches landfills than other type of municipal solid waste.

Recycle unavoidable food waste by diverting it away from landfills to more productive uses, including animal feed, compost or food to energy.»

Also, at the end of 2014 we had more than 50 % of our stores participating in food waste recycling, which resulted in another 20,500 tons diverted from landfills.

Kellogg has reduced waste sent to landfill by more than 60 percent since 2005, including food waste, and remains committed to ensuring edible food waste is donated to feed people in need, when appropriate.

We are building on progress at our production sites to reduce landfill waste, and plan to work more closely with supply partners to ensure that all the packaging we receive can be recycled.

Unilever has reached a new industry - leading achievement of sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill across more than 600 sites, in 70 countries, including factories, warehouses, distribution centres and offices.

We are proud to announce a figure of zero to landfill which we feel is an achievement worth publicising, however we also believe there is more that can be done and in the coming years we will strive to get even more value out of waste streams.»

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.

Further, the EPA reports more food goes into landfills nationwide than any other single material in municipal solid waste, and in 2010 alone Americans generated more than 34 million tons of food waste.

Like Nicole, I'm primarily concerned with diverting food waste from the landfills, but not necessarily with making great compost to use often (although now that I'm getting more interested in gardening, maybe I will change my tune).

Also, they are disposable and add to more waste being added to the landfill.

Paper products are still the largest component of municipal solid waste, making up more than 40 % of the composition of landfills.

That's why it's important for new parents to find ways to be green without breaking the family budget,» says Kelly Wels, the founder of KellysCloset.com, an Internet baby boutique specializing in eco-friendly products and cloth diapers... Wels says that Tobin, like other new moms, is part of a growing number of families who are saying «no» to disposable diapers, which are known to create the third most landfill waste in the U.S., and saying «yes» to more eco-friendly options.»

Cloth diapers keep more trash (and human waste) out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.

Oh, and we think it is just marvelous that as opposed to these toys creating more waste in our landfills, each Green Toys ™ Stacking Cup actually was made with recycled materials, keeping even more trash out of mother earth!

There are several benefits cheaper ($ 1500 or more over 2 - 3 years), environmental (no waste in landfills!!)

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 Group, now a part of the government's Green Construction Board activities has been monitoring construction, demolition and excavation waste since 2008, as well as advising what actions are needed across the industry to be more efficient in the use of materials and to reduce waste to landfill.

Britain still sends more household waste to landfill than any other country in the European Union.

We have an opportunity to potentially pursue a waste - to - energy facility in the Town of Ulster, which would provide energy and be more sustainable than the current system of merely landfilling garbage.»

State officials say more than 318 million pounds of electronic waste was diverted from landfills during

In the case of the Resource Recovery Agency, there is a lack of vision and absence of sustained commitment to reduce our waste impacts as the county ships our waste more than 200 miles to sit in a landfill.

I applaud the efforts of Residents for the Preservation of Lowman and Chemung and People for a Healthy Environment, Inc. to bring the issue of radioactive drilling wastes in the Chemung County landfill to the attention of the public, the DEC and the Chemung County legislature, which is currently considering a sizeable expansion of the Chemung County landfill to allow the landfill to take more drilling cuttings.

Fortunately, today's solid - waste industry is ready to meet this challenge with science - based solutions, including waste - based energy, more efficient and sophisticated recycling facilities, and modern landfill technology.

When one California city started a composting program to keep food waste out of its landfill, residents began to pay more attention to other environmentally sound practices, such as taking shorter showers, according to a study led by Nicole Sintov, an assistant professor of behavior, decision making and sustainability at The Ohio State University.

For example, yard waste in Florida in December will likely break down a lot quicker in landfills and create more methane gas than the same amount of yard waste in Minnesota during the same month.

The scenario is better for yard waste — grass clippings, leaves and branches — with more than half diverted to compost facilities instead of landfills.

As Katrina Cornish explains it, the technology has the potential to solve three problems: It makes the manufacture of rubber products more sustainable, reduces American dependence on foreign oil and keeps waste out of landfills.

«We started with a waste product that was headed for the landfill and created batteries that stored more energy, charged faster, and were more stable than commercial coin cell batteries.

Leading to more methane collection and more room for waste without more landfills.

Unwanted cell phones, televisions, PCs (including desktops, laptops, portables and computer monitors), computer peripherals (including printers, scanners and fax machines), computer mouses and keyboards amounted to more than 1.9 million tons of solid municipal waste in the U.S.; of that, more than 1.5 million tons were dumped primarily into landfills, whereas the rest was recycled, the EPA says.

The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, examined more than 1,200 solid waste landfills, including those that are open and those that are closed and no longer accepting waste.

The study's primary goal was to learn more about the efficiency of methane capture systems at landfills, which are more effective after a landfill stops accepting new waste, he said.

Using previously unavailable data from individual landfills, the study found that in 2012, about 262 million metric tonnes of waste were deposited in landfills across the country, more than double the 122 million tonnes estimated by the EPA.

When organic material like food waste is sent to landfills, it generates methane — a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

From recycling more everyday items like glass and plastic bottles and unwanted electrical goods to reducing our food waste, re-using carrier bags or trying out new things like home composting, there's lots we can all do to help cut back on the amount of waste we send to landfill.

Schools have also made significant savings through reducing the waste sent to landfill and diverting more to recycling.

How about the fact that all of GM's global facilities recycle or reuse more than 90 percent of the waste they generate and 102 of them are landfill - free.

This is yet another example, DFW Chevy lovers, of how GM is continuously striving for improvement and reducing its carbon footprint, and has committed to achieve 25 more landfill - free sites and reduce total waste another 10 percent by 2020.

This means less waste will end up in landfills and it is more convenient for you.