Sentences with phrase «municipal waste agency»
The Samsons got a flyer about an incentive program for purchasing cloth diapers from their municipal waste agency.
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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more food reaches landfills than other type of municipal solid waste.
New eco-clothes are still new clothes, and the fashion industry's insistence that one season's cool togs are the next season's trash spurs us to squander resources: Americans discarded 8,640,000 tons of clothing and footwear in 2006, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates of municipal solid waste generation — a quantity that has more than doubled since 1990.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane - rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996.
The Environmental Protection Agency's Web site states: «Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream.»
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.
The table below shows data compiled by the International Energy Agency, which estimates carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of coal, natural gas, oil and other fuels, including industrial waste and non-renewable municipal waste.