Sentences with phrase «out of the landfills as»

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As a result, they're kept out of grocery stores and food service deliveries — and tossed in the landfill.

Reducing food waste is important as it keeps food out of landfills, reduces emissions of methane, and has other environmental impacts.

Also, as dozens of horrible people have pointed out in the comments of this BuzzFeed post, it's entirely possible that this mom, who enjoys «thrifty shopping,» actually just bought an enormous amount of very cheap, completely worthless crap and didn't spend a fortune on this future landfill.

Oh, and we think it is just marvelous that as opposed to these toys creating more waste in our landfills, each Green Toys ™ Stacking Cup actually was made with recycled materials, keeping even more trash out of mother earth!

Specialty cloth wipes, soft facecloths, or just cut - up flannel squares with a bit of water do the job just as well, without the nasty chemicals and staying out of the landfills.

And as Elizabeth pointed out... those diapers lurking in our landfills are full of bacteria and viruses from bundled up baby poo.

Some state legislators and environmental advocates see it as a chance to make sure oil and gas wastes from hydraulic fracturing in neighboring states like Pennsylvania stay out of wastewater plants and landfills.

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.

«Through these drop off days we keep drugs out of the wrong hands, as well as the landfills and water systems, which can also be extremely dangerous.

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.

The Town of Lewiston, Niagara County Legislature and the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown, as well as the Lewiston - Porter school district, have voiced their dissent despite the risk of losing out on the millions of dollars in revenue from taxes and fees that CWM would pay over the lifetime of the new landfill.

PET carpet advocates brag that their products keep plastic soda and water bottles out of the landfill, but who knows how many of those sacrificed bottles could have lived on as more bottles instead of other end of the line products.

When one California city started a composting program to keep food waste out of its landfill, residents began to pay more attention to other environmentally sound practices, such as taking shorter showers, according to a study led by Nicole Sintov, an assistant professor of behavior, decision making and sustainability at The Ohio State University.

As Katrina Cornish explains it, the technology has the potential to solve three problems: It makes the manufacture of rubber products more sustainable, reduces American dependence on foreign oil and keeps waste out of landfills.

Landfills in Korea accumulate more than 250,000 tons of oyster shells each year, while coal - fired power plants churn out just as much fly ash.

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 %.

This means that you may safely drink municipal supplies and get water that is better than bottled water (as well as avoiding the consumption of chemicals leaked from plastic and keeping that plastic out of landfills); but it doesn't mean that the water is as good as it could be.

Buying secondhand helps to keep clothing waste out of landfills, it lessens the demand from the major retailers, and many times you're also supporting a small business or local charity (as many secondhand shops / consignment shops, etc. benefit non-profits or are privately owned!)

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.

Converting a defunct golf course and dormant landfills into detention basins, digging new channels and buying out or elevating scores of homes are among Houston leaders» key priorities as Hurricane...

As a result, we are currently keeping over one thousand tons a day 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.

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.

But as long as landfills are piling up, we must manage the methane coming out of them.

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.

Okay so biodegradable bed pans are neither here nor there when it comes to your health, but seeing as hospitals have quite a large waste stream (not much that you can just trash when it comes to contaminated objects), this is one more way to keep what they can out of local landfills.

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.

Their AirFlex plastics are made by extracting carbon and oxygen molecules out of air and greenhouse gases (including CO2 and methane) which could be fed from sources such as landfills, wastewater treatment plants, or energy plants.

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.

This helps keep glass out of the landfills and these tiles are every bit as beautiful and durable as other glass tiles.