Sentences with phrase «plastics out of the landfill»

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.