Sentences with phrase «released by landfills»

A more immediate problem for climate change is methane, which is released by landfills and melting permafrost and through farming practices.

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The Mayor's recently released OneNYC sustainability plan has adopted an ambitious goal of «zero waste,» which aims to reduce by 90 per cent the amount of New York City trash sent to landfills by 2030.

So by 2005, says an EPA - funded study released last May, there may be 500 million used, useless phones headed for landfills.

About two thirds of the discarded devices were still functioning, upping the danger that they would crack during transport or when crushed by garbage trucks, tossed into landfills or incinerated (more of an issue in developing countries), thereby releasing toxic chemicals into the environment.

Another 8 percent came from biomass and plants that burn gas from landfills (which generates carbon but is considered «renewable» because the gas is released by decomposing garbage).

By capturing this landfill gas and using it to produce electricity, the methane and carbon dioxide contained within are destroyed, reducing the emissions released.

Current official inventories of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas released from landfills, livestock ranches and oil and gas facilities, may be underestimated both nationally and in California by a factor of about 1.5, according to new research from Berkeley Lab and others.