Sentences with phrase «packaging out of landfills»

Tavill says much of the effort has been focused around keeping packaging out of landfills.

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Americans add 570 million pounds of food packaging to their landfills each day, while pre-packaged foods force consumers to buy more than they need, stuffing their bellies and their trash bins: 27 percent of food brought into U.S. kitchens ends up getting tossed out.

Cloth diapers keep more trash (and human waste) out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.

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.

Extraneous packaging and poor packaging design are a couple of TreeHugger's least favorite things, so we're always glad to see examples of better packaging and creative ways to reuse old packaging and keep it out of the landfill.