Sentences with phrase «out of the landfill for»

(Plus you'll keep one ton of waste out of the landfill for each child that you cloth diaper!)

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John Strelitz, president of paper broker Streco Fibres, in Virginia Beach, Va., keeps paper out of landfills by buying, for example, scrap magazine stock and selling it to the gift - wrap market.

YouRenew promotes the idea of «recommerce,» a way for consumers to get the most out of what they buy and cut down on landfill waste.

Romy Tittel, Leader of the Green Party of Alberta and Catriona Wright, Shadow Cabinet member for Sustainable Towns and Cities, strongly encourages the Alberta Government to quickly adopt the following in order to keep recyclables out of the landfill: An immediate plastic bag ban.

Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

The presentations include information on the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, liability protection for food donation, the food recovery hierarchy, and innovative ways to keep retailer food waste out of landfills.

The European Aluminium Association (EAA) is calling for higher recycling targets and a phase out of landfilling of end - use recyclable goods.

We passed the money - saving threshold ages ago, but my other motives for starting cloth still hold strong: I'm still keeping waste out of landfills and I'm still limiting my baby's exposure to chemicals.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

«You're keeping trash and human waste out of landfills, saving money, and it's better for the baby.»

Besides, the same should be done for disposables — human waste should not end up in landfills; it still needs to be shaken out of disposable diapers.

And though it all worked out for us in the end, and I felt totally fine about my decision to abandon the cloth bandwagon and throw my contribution into my local landfill for the sake of my sanity and my baby's comfort, it wasn't a simple road getting from Point Cloth to Point IDGAF.

But knowing that my trips to the store to buy disposable wipes are few and far between, and that I've kept hundreds of wipes out of the landfill is good enough for me.

(The Urban School Food Alliance, an organization pushing for healthier, greener options in seven major U.S. cities, is using its leverage to keep 225 million single - use plastic trays out of landfills every year.)

A state senator lashed out Monday at the Department of Environmental Conservation for its failure to protect residents living by a landfill in Wheatfield that was recently declared a Superfund site.

Covanta burns the drugs and generates clean energy for Western New York; this process keeps medications out of landfills and prevents the drugs from entering water systems.

Then there is another of the district's unquantifiable qualities: Staten Island's ingrained feeling of aggrievement, which grows out of its situation as an isolated suburban enclave tethered to America's largest metropolis, and out of the traumatic memory of the Fresh Kills landfill, where the city dumped other boroughs» trash for half a century.

The SWMP grew out of the Giuliani - era closing of the Fresh Kills landfill, previously the destination for the City's garbage, as the City has tried to develop a long term plan for waste transfer.

It follows an announcement at the beginning of November by David Cameron and Nick Clegg setting out plans to devolve control of Landfill Tax and Stamp Duty Land Tax and to pave the way for a referendum on transferring part control of income tax.

The U.S. computer industry has responded by adopting a voluntary program called Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) that is designed to provide standards for greener computers as well as to keep discarded electronics out of landfills, where the majority end up.

Key components of land - based sources include litter, trash and debris from construction, ports and marinas, commercial and industrial facilities, and trash blown out of garbage containers, trucks, and landfills.1 Ocean - based sources, such as, overboard discharges from ships and discarded fishing gear, account for the other 20 %.

Szaky, the serial creator who started TerraCycle out of his college dorm room, and his team seek to «eliminate the idea of waste» by partnering with brands and retailers to make it easier for consumers to send in previously landfill - bound household material.

Not only will your garden love this nutrient - rich addition, but composting is also great for the planet by keeping more trash out of landfills.

Not only is paying for bottled water like paying for gravity, but the plastic chemicals leaching out of the bottles have now been proven highly toxic to your body, and our landfills are overflowing with plastic bottles that do not biodegrade.

A new report ranks centralized composting as a top strategy for keeping food waste out of landfills, where it emits methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Here are 3 recent reviews of mine for Hammer to Nail: I Am Not Your Negro, a new documentary (just nominated for an Academy Award) about James Baldwin; Landfill Harmonic, a documentary about children making music on instruments fashioned out of recycled trash; and the Criterion Collection's new Blu - ray release of Noah Baumbach's breakout third feature, The Squid and the Whale, about a family's dissolution in the wake of the parents» divorce.

Then the publishers could send those books for recycling, thus keeping them out of landfills and taking them off the used book market.

WHY: To have fun, to keep stuff out of the landfill and (for all items sold @ # 5 Wyckoff) to build our Spay / Neuter Fund!

To be successful, we have to provide good service to our wood suppliers, balance the supply coming in with the market for products going out and find customers for every portion of the raw material so none goes to waste or to the landfill.

Not too long ago, on a typical summer day at the downtown market, we would throw out about 500 gallons worth of garbage bags destined for the landfill, loaded with food scraps, plastic water bottles, to - go coffee cups, paper plates, soda cans, packaging and other discarded items.

It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns and keeping good stuff out of landfills.

In Session 3, entitled «Consume Less Create More,» the steps in the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each step.

If you have your period, women can swap out a regular tampon for the Ruby Cup, which is a reusable menstrual cup that can be used for up to 10 years, thereby reducing the number of unsustainable sanitary items making their way to landfill.

Most of us know that recycling helps to minimise our reliance on raw materials as well as reducing landfill and damaging greenhouse gases - but you may not know what happens to your waste once it has been put out for collection.

From 10 AM to 4 PM, they'll be collecting electronics for proper recycling in an effort to keep hazardous materials out of landfills.

Keeping food scraps out of landfills is good for the environment!

For example, while a carbon tax would likely reduce consumption of oil, gas, and coal (and make polluters internalize the costs of the damage they cause), it doesn't tackle many of the other greenhouse gas emissions out there, like methane from livestock and landfills, or deforestation in the tropics.

Given the time I had and in wading through literally reams of paper and data, I have also attempted to present the case for diversion but may just be another voice crying out in the wilderness since there seems to be no true interest in diverting materials from the landfill waste stream.

The Map found in the Appendix (16) shows the impact of landfilling, especially for Monroe and Wayne counties, with four of the top five Landfills receiving out of state trash located in southeastern Michigan.

Because they are made out of plastic, they will not break down and will remain in the landfill for eternity.

Mr. Cipollina said that as the cost of shipping garbage to out - of - state landfills rises, and as the price the city can get for recycled material increases, recycling will make more sense.

The pledge means that WM, our nation's biggest recycler, promises to keep e-waste out of incinerators and landfills, will not export e-waste to developing countries or prisons for recycling, and will recycle and track e-waste through the entire recycling stream.

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.

Starbucks has taken a lot of heat, so to speak, for adding 4 billion non-recyclable cups annually to the landfill — which may stand out even more now that Dunkin' Donuts has announced a transition away from polystyrene foam cups.

The anaerobic digester has been in place since 2004, the plan is now to up the amount of food waste processed into biogas from the current 90 tons per week to 200 tons: Food Waste Biogas Could Power 2.5 Million Homes Nationally The whole thing is perfectly fine, but if you're wondering what the big deal about just chucking your food waste in the landfill and perhaps have been a bit uncertain why we're always telling you about the virtues of composting, here are a few quick facts (again, thanks to the EPA for pulling these out) to supply the context.

In order to keep the electronics out of landfills, the researchers propose that the batteries be reused where electricity is scarce — in rural communities where kerosene lamps are relied on for lighting.

Certainly, any plastic we can keep out of the landfills and oceans is great, for whatever time that item is reused or recycled.

Also, Eric Corey Freed, founding principal of Organic Architect in Portland, Ore., recommends real estate professionals learn what's available for environmental - and health - conscious consumers, such as recycled options that keep raw materials out of landfills, concrete walls that «eat» carbon to remove it from a room's air supply, and tiles that decoratively cover walls while eliminating contaminating gases for those highly sensitive to certain chemicals.

Just love the fact that you used what you had and real leaves in lieu of the fake stuff that is churned out by the industry to get us to spend more money and creates more waste for our landfills.