The association has managed to reduce daily water consumption by 39 % since 2007, while nearly half
of all solid waste generated in the building is now being recycled, reported AAAS Building Manager Robert Zayas.
In 2008, AAAS recycled nearly one - half, or 48 %
of all solid waste generated in the building — 25.96 tons of commingled content such as cans, bottles, and plastic; 18.94 tons of mixed paper; and 36.6 tons of cardboard.
Not exact matches
Polystyrene foodservice packaging — ya know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out
of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight,
of the total one percent
of polystyrene products
generated in municipal
solid waste.
We've also implemented a comprehensive recycling program in both facilities that allows us to continuously reduce the amount
of non-recyclable
solid waste we
generate.
Polystyrene foodservice packaging — you know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out
of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight,
of the total one percent
of polystyrene products
generated in municipal
solid waste.
«These sorts
of environmental benefits could also be genuinely beneficial to forward - thinking Australian meat companies looking to reduce their environmental impact, and
generate energy from their
wastes and by - products, both liquid and
solid.
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.
AKASTex LLC (who purchased Wazoodle in 2012) says ``... the manufacturing process has no discharges
of VOC [Volatile Organic Chemicals] or solvent fumes which helps keep air clean, and
generates no
solid waste, thereby supporting our efforts towards a clean environment while supplying our customers a high - quality product.»
The ten - year plan for the management
of solid waste outlines how much
solid waste is currently
generated in Dutchess County and how much is currently recycled and reused.
The summary provides an update on Dutchess County's recycling rate, amount
of waste generated last year, as well as an overview
of activities and accomplishments as related to the County's «Rethinking
Waste» Local
Solid Waste Management Plan.
Westchester County's top five municipalities with the highest curbside recycling rates out
of total
solid waste generated in 2015 are: City
of Rye: 30 %, New Castle: 29 %, North Castle: 29 %, Hastings: 28 %, Scarsdale: 28 %.
It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from
solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to
generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead
of using fossil fuels).
Industries, like municipalities and other entities that
generate wastes, dispose
of many liquid
wastes through wastewater systems (and ultimately to waterbodies), whereas they dispose
of their
solid wastes in landfills.
In testimony before a Congressional Subcommittee, the Ohio Director
of the State
of Environmental Protection Agency in 2003 made the following observations, (23)... «With the passage
of Ohio's comprehensive
solid waste law, H.B. 592, in 1988, Ohio took a proactive step to responsibly manage Ohio's
waste by assuring in - state disposal capacity, at state
of the art facilities, for
solid waste generated in Ohio, and setting state recycling goals.
The average Clark County resident
generates 8 pounds
of solid waste every day.
... - based on information provided by states - revealed that 250 million tons
of municipal
solid waste (MSW) were
generated annually.
Wood, Wood Waste, Other
Solid Waste: Covers purpose - grown energy crops (poplar, willow etc.), a multitude
of woody materials
generated by an industrial process (wood / paper industry in particular) or provided directly by forestry and agriculture as well as
wastes such as straw, rice husks, crushed grape dregs etc..
As
of 2010, 3.5 million tons
of solid waste were
generated per day and will rise to 6 million tons by 2025.
Consider that 20 years ago, 217 million tons
of municipal
solid waste (MSW) were
generated and 58.6 million tons — 27 percent — were recycled or composted.
«(ii) electricity
generated through the incineration
of municipal
solid waste owned by an electric utility or sold under contract or rate order to an electric utility to meet the needs
of the retail customers
of the utility;
-- The term «qualified
waste - to - energy» means energy from the combustion
of post-recycled municipal
solid waste, or from the gasification or pyrolization
of such
waste and the combustion
of the resulting gas at the same facility, if the owner or operator
of the facility
generating electricity from the energy provides to the Commission, on an annual basis --
-- The term «renewable energy» means energy
generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal
solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions
of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.
From the book «Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras» by Tanya M Kerssen: «Palm oil manufacturing
generates three main kinds
of waste:
solid waste (fibers, shells and empty fruit bunches); liquid
waste (
generated in the oil extraction process); and air emissions (smoke from boilers and incinerators).
Industrial activities currently
generate nearly 7.6 billion tons
of solid waste in the U.S. each year, 3,000 %
of the total municipal
waste generated by Americans annually; on the other hand, electronic
waste is currently the fastest growing
solid waste stream, growing two to three times faster than any other
waste stream.