In fact, consumers who purchase our reusable glass bottles help keep approximately 500,000 pounds of milk containers and
plastic out of the landfill each year.
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.
«We purchase post-industrial, pre-consumer, recyclable materials to reduce our carbon footprint and keep millions of pounds of
plastic out of landfills,» says senior marketing manager Emilye Schmale.
Not exact matches
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.
If you are going to throw these diapers
out you will be keeping human waster,
plastic and other chemicals
out of landfills, but to properly decompose these need exposure to sun and air.
• Less
Plastic, Less Waste: Just 1 Sage Squeezie helps keep over 50 single use food pouches
out of landfills!
Feel good knowing our eco fabrics keep
plastic bottles
out of landfills and our dye process conserves water.For 2016 we're using a combination
of an innovative solution dye process and 100 % rPET fibers made from recycled post-consumer water bottles throughout our fabrics on all the stroller
Feel good knowing that Bumbleride's eco fabrics keep
plastic bottles
out of landfills and their dye process conserves water.
(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.)
You are correct, it's not taking away bags from
landfills, but it would take virtually indestructible
plastic bags
out of landfills.
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.
The report recommended that these
plastics should be kept
out of conventional
plastics recycling in favor
of incineration or
landfill.
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.
From recycling more everyday items like glass and
plastic bottles and unwanted electrical goods to reducing our food waste, re-using carrier bags or trying
out new things like home composting, there's lots we can all do to help cut back on the amount
of waste we send to
landfill.
With about five short conversations and a bit
of oral and written language (a sign and an announcement) we were able to change the status quo by diverting at least 200
plastic bottles and aluminum cans
out of the
landfill or incineration waste stream.
The collars are made from 100 - percent post-consumer
plastic — keeping the equivalent
of 1.5 bottles
out of landfills with every collar sold.
Buy our stuffed toys made from 100 percent recycled
plastic bottles where each toy keeps over 10 bottles
out of landfills and our kids will be all right.
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.
In reality, it is simply just loaded polyethylene film - or
plastic with holes in to you and me... Disposal
of used sanitary products is either by flushing
out to sea, incineration, or depositing in
landfill sites.
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.
Because they are made
out of plastic, they will not break down and will remain in the
landfill for eternity.
I have met a countless number
of people across the world who were shocked that this logo did not mean «please recycle me,» and were more shocked to find
out that a large percentage
of the product they were used to placing in their recycling container was in fact being sorted and sent to
landfill at the recycling center, since the center could not handle that form
of plastic.
Over the past 20 years, more than 80 billion bottles and cans have been returned and recycled through New York's bottle bill, and more than five million tons
of plastic, glass and metal have been kept
out of New York's
landfills and 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.
Certainly, any
plastic we can keep
out of the
landfills and oceans is great, for whatever time that item is reused or recycled.
From recycling more everyday items like glass and
plastic bottles and unwanted electrical goods to reducing our food waste, re-using carrier bags or trying
out new things like home composting, there's lots we can all do to help cut back on the amount
of waste we send to
landfill.
From recycling more everyday items like glass and
plastic bottles and unwanted electrical goods to reducing our food waste, re-using carrier bags or trying
out new things like home composting, there's lots we can all do to help cut back on the amount
of waste we send to
landfill.