Sentences with phrase «municipal incinerators»

By the 1960s, one - third of the city's trash was burned in over 17,000 apartment building incinerators and 22 municipal incinerators.

Signatory companies of the pledge are required, among other things, to prevent hazardous e-waste from entering municipal incinerators or landfills; to prevent the export of such e-waste to developing countries; and to provide visible tracking of e-waste throughout the product recycling chain.

In applauding the legislation the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) points out that old electronics account for about 40 % of the lead found in municipal landfills as well as mercury, cadmium, and other toxic heavy metals in landfills and municipal incinerators.

Old landfills and incinerators were gradually shut down, with the last municipal incinerator closed in 1992.

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If this were the case, then those of us who live in less salubrious areas wouldn't have the municipal dump or waste incinerators on our doorsteps.

If you burn PVC [in a municipal - waste incinerator], you get dioxin — very toxic.»

In fact, since 2010, food waste is the single largest component of municipal solid waste reaching landfills and incinerators.

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.

Two of those projects, at an ethanol refinery in Decatur, IL and a municipal solid waste incinerator in Oslo, will help demonstrate the concept of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (known as «BECCS» for short), which climate scientists see as a prime candidate for delivering large - scale carbon removal in the future.