Sentences with phrase «of municipal waste»

Second, it reduces potentially toxic runoff into city sewers, which reduces the volume of water and overall wear on city infrastructure and also reduces the environmental impact of municipal waste water.

Practice head Georgie Messent specialises in the waste sector and in 2016 assisted waste companies both in relation to litigation, including a significant nuisance action, as well as on various transactional matters; in one example of the latter, Messent acted for Cory Environmental Group and its fund managers on the sale of its municipal waste business, Cory Environmental Municipal Services, to Biffa Waste Services.

The fans also sit on top of a municipal waste disposal company, where the incineration process produces a lot of heat.

The Parliament of Ukraine recently adopted a law introducing higher standards, charges and liability for the collection of municipal waste.

«Our principal findings provide a more accurate estimate of municipal waste disposal in the United States compared to previous estimates,» study co-author Jon T. Powell, a Yale doctoral student, said.

After a four - year experiment with two comparable 533 - tonne samples of municipal waste, the leachate from the wet cell contained dissolved organic particles from food, leaves and garden debris totalling 2700 milligrams per litre.

not to defend them, but disposables compromise only 1 % of the municipal waste stream.

Disposable diapers may make up only 1 % of the municipal waste stream, but, most of the harm disposable diapers do to the environment is actually in their production — not disposal.

Currently, packaging produced by ABA members represents about 1.7 percent of all municipal waste generated each year.

It describes a city investing in energy and resource effectiveness, with falling water consumption and only two per cent of municipal waste going to landfill in 2010.

Not exact matches

Enerkem is to handle operations and the city is to supply 100,000 tonnes annually of sorted municipal waste that can not be composted or recycled.

Walmart Canada's 12 waste programs — including cardboard, organics, metal and others — has resulted in the diversion of 72 % of Walmart Canada's waste from municipal land - fill sites.

Today, 244 of Walmart Canada's stores send organic waste for composting or anaerobic digestion so it doesn't end up in municipal landfill.

Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

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.

U.S. communities and states that have implemented alternatives to extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies are achieving high municipal solid waste recycling rates at reasonable costs, while also addressing a wider spectrum of the waste stream than narrowly - focused EPR mandates, according to a new study conducted by consulting firm SAIC for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

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.

Another municipal waste - to - energy project — using technology available in Australasia — is designed to convert more than 65,000 tons of mixed organic waste a year into environmentally harmonious green energy and dry fertilizer.

The new service will particularly benefit municipal and industrial users of waste water and water recycling technologies that do not always have optimal engineering services available in - house, says the Managing Director of CST Wastewater solutions Mr Michael Bambridge.

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

High efficiency fine screening technology engineered to deliver low maintenance performance with reduced OHS hazards for municipal and industrial waste water schemes is demonstrating immediate results in one of its new applications CST -LSB-...]

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

EU Parliament votes in favor of waste legislation package; 2030 recycling targets set at 60 % for municipal waste and 70 % for packaging; manufacturers to make information on SVHC content in products available to public

Wegner: Clearly, the use of multiple materials and light weighting of flexible packaging has challenged the current infrastructures and technologies of our municipal solid waste streams.

FAST achieves nutrient removal for applications containing high level of nitrogen, a water pollutant that has increased significantly in industrial, commercial and municipal applications and which is an environmental concern particularly to resources, engineering, construction, hospitality, marine, agribusiness and public facility and water and waste water infrastructure organizations.

«In Växjö, the greenest city in Europe, we strive to produce meals with a lower effect on the environment in municipal kitchens by purchasing locally produced and ecological foodstuffs, reduce waste, increase the proportion of vegetables and adapt menus to the season.»

Incinerated municipal solids and other waste streams results in a significant amount of ash residue, which often contains valuable metals.

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.

Disposable diapers are one of the largest contributors to landfills; in Canada, they represent approximately 3 % of total residential waste.10 The 2008 Municipal Waste Report from the EPA indicated that in the US, diapers contribute 2.3 % of the weight of all products discarded.

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

The main problem is the filling of landfills (though Procter & Gamble remind us that diapers account for only two percent of the nation's municipal solid waste).

Use of disposables raises a concern about solid waste management, while cloth diapers contribute to air and water pollution and possible taxing of municipal water and sewage systems.

There are many hidden costs of garbage such as municipal solid waste taxes and depletion of natural resources.

That is, collect, treat and dispose of municipal and industrial waste in the most efficient and environmentally sound manner.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

My assumption is that the mafia plays a decisive role in determining the destination of collected municipal waste in order to gain profit from illegal disposal, and that, by doing so, it behaves as a (bad) alternative provider of a public service.

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.

Fresh Kills is the last of the landfills in New York City and the last unlined municipal solid waste landfill in New York State.

The facility would burn 2,600 tons of solid municipal waste brought in by truck and or rail each day, and produce what proponents call «clean electricity.»

The Bill did not succeed that year but the Government eventually backed a similar Bill by Joan Ruddock and the Municipal Waste Recycling Bill was passed in October 2003, increasing the levels of recycling of residential waste.

The Chief Executive for the Adentan Municipal Assembly, Nii Noi Adumuah, has proposed waste segregation as part of the waste...

«This is about the relationship between a father and his son,» Mr. Conniff argued, claiming that a municipal waste treatment start - up and a medical malpractice insurance firm hired his client because of his name recognition and ties to Long Island elected officials.

Andreassen and others anticipate that a large chunk of the world's agricultural, industrial, and municipal waste may someday go into thermal depolymerization machines scattered all over the globe.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

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.

As a result, rainwater bounces off and collects as runoff, picking up impurities — including infectious bacteria from animal waste as well as harmful pesticides and fertilizers — on the way to municipal storm sewers, which in turn eventually empty out into local bodies of water.

In the aftermath of Yucca's mothballing, the DOE has pursued a diverse strategy of nuclear waste management that includes tentative plans for consolidated interim storage facilities, tests of deep boreholes as another possible long - term storage technique, and the development of «consent - based» siting protocols to gain support from municipal and state governments.

One facility in Utashinai, Japan, has been doing just that since 2003, using plasma — an electrically induced stream of hot, charged particles — to process up to 220 tons of municipal solid waste a day.

Food waste is the single largest component going into municipal landfills in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.