Sentences with phrase «solid waste emissions»

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that the environmental impacts can include greenhouse gas emissions, the production of solid waste — some of which may be hazardous — and the use of water resources.

We are now working toward achieving by 2020 new goals for reducing solid waste, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, nonrenewable energy use and packaging.

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

Actions include setting and updating sustainability goals, improving the sustainability profile of their packaging, reducing solid waste generation, greenhouse gas emissions and consumption of water and power, supporting environmental organizations and adopting corporate social responsibility initiatives to improve the plight of the neediest among us.Read More >

In 2009, Snyder's of Hanover set a goal to reduce its energy and natural gas usage and greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent each in the next five years, as well as reduce its solid waste by 30 percent in the same period.

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

Moreover, PET plastic bottles use less energy, generate less solid waste and create fewer greenhouse gas emissions than glass bottles or aluminum cans.

We have implemented a universal process to achieve our sustainability goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, solid landfill waste and water consumption.

He writes, «Disposables consume more raw materials and produce more solid waste... but cloth diaper production and use consume more water and energy and produce more... atmospheric emissions and waste water effluent.»

Funiciello, a bread company owner and political activist from Hudson Falls, criticized Stefanik for co-sponsoring the Farm Regulatory Certainty Act, legislation to clarify that livestock emissions should not be regulated as solid waste.

Fumes from nitrogen - rich fertilizers and animal waste combine in the air with combustion emissions to form solid particles in the air.

The culprit: fumes from nitrogen - rich fertilizers and animal waste combine in the air with combustion emissions to form solid particles, which constitute a major source of disease and death, according to the new study.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane - rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996.

Lindberg, S.E., Southworth, G.R., Bogle, M.A., Blasing, T.J., Zhang, H., Kuiken, T., Price, J., Reinhart, D., Sfeir, H., Owens, J., Roy, K. Airborne emissions of mercury from municipal solid waste I: New measurements from six operating landfills in Florida.

The American Lung Association supports the safe control of emissions from landfills and composting facilities, and recommends that only clean vehicles, equipment, and vessels be used transporting and managing solid waste materials.

The culprit: fumes from nitrogen - rich fertilizers and animal waste that combine in the air with industrial emissions to form solid particles — a huge source of disease and death.

These programs include energy efficiency in homes and buildings, renewable energy grants and rebates, and reducing emissions associated with transportation and solid waste.

Coalition ministers prioritise reducing emissions from agriculture and municipal solid waste at COP23 Bonn 15 November, 2017

Waste Total emissions from solid waste disposal on land, wastewater, waste incineration and any other waste management activity.

Food waste contributes to twenty five percent of methane emissions, and fourteen percent of all municipal solid wastes.

Many companies are trying to demonstrate that their operations minimize water use and carbon emissions and produce zero solid waste (ITC, 2006).

These include making renewable energy carriers available on - site by using more electricity and district heating instead of fossil fuels for processes, using more environmentally - friendly materials for lower emissions in production (e.g. recycled steel, and solid wood), better thinking around transport of surplus masses (soil / rock / gravel), and improved waste management and recycling.

In addition to providing mitigation of GHG emissions, improved public health, and environmental benefits, solid waste and wastewater technologies confer significant co-benefits for adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development (Table 10.7; see also Section 12.3.4).

According to the USGBC, green buildings can reduce energy 24 - 50 %, CO2 emissions 33 - 39 %, water use 14 % and solid waste 70 % (source).

From the book «Grabbing Power: The New Struggles for Land, Food and Democracy in Northern Honduras» by Tanya M Kerssen: «Palm oil manufacturing generates three main kinds of waste: solid waste (fibers, shells and empty fruit bunches); liquid waste (generated in the oil extraction process); and air emissions (smoke from boilers and incinerators).

Landfill Gas Extraction Carbon Offsets — Unregulated landfill operations may collect and convert the methane emissions occurring as solid wastes break down at their facility over time.

100 percent PCR PET materials use significantly less energy and water to produce than virgin plastic and generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste.

This can include transformative or innovative actions to reduce black carbon and methane emissions from household energy, transportation, municipal solid waste, the brick sector and other combustion industries, agriculture and the oil and gas industry; or to replace hydrofluorocarbons used in cooling and refrigeration.

«Solutions exist with sustainable transport in cities, solid waste management, access to clean household fuels and cook - stoves, as well as renewable energies and industrial emissions reductions.»

Supermarket giant reports solid progress against emissions goals, but there is less encouraging news on food waste

Beginning in 2001, Monterrey, Mexico — a modern city of nearly four million people that disposes of over 4,500 tons of municipal solid waste a day in the Metropolitan Solid Waste Processing landfill — attempted to harvest methane from the landfill for electricity while reducing methane emisssolid waste a day in the Metropolitan Solid Waste Processing landfill — attempted to harvest methane from the landfill for electricity while reducing methane emissSolid Waste Processing landfill — attempted to harvest methane from the landfill for electricity while reducing methane emissions.

A reduction in energy use, emissions, solid waste and toxic imput materials is needed if the ends are to justify the means.

We Americans are pretty wasteful when it comes to food — it's the single largest type of municipal solid waste that ends up in landfills — and throwing it out with the trash leads to methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that makes carbon dioxide look harmless.

A life cycle inventory (LCI) is an environmental profile that expresses environmental burdens from the perspective of energy consumption, solid waste generation, atmospheric emissions, and waterborne emissions.

Greystone Books, the publisher, has avoided almost 1 million pounds of CO2 emissions, saved 500,000 pounds of solid waste and 14,000 liters of water by using 100 % post consumer recycled paper in its books.

· Since 2008, Intel has linked a portion of every employee's compensation to environmental goals, focusing on carbon emission reductions in 2012 and solid waste recycling in 2013.