Sentences with phrase «solid waste generated»

In testimony before a Congressional Subcommittee, the Ohio Director of the State of Environmental Protection Agency in 2003 made the following observations, (23)... «With the passage of Ohio's comprehensive solid waste law, H.B. 592, in 1988, Ohio took a proactive step to responsibly manage Ohio's waste by assuring in - state disposal capacity, at state of the art facilities, for solid waste generated in Ohio, and setting state recycling goals.

At page 3, the inspection report states that in this case the EPA inspection was to determine whether an approved waste stream, S3000 for homogenous solid waste generated at Rocky Flats, was being correctly characterized.

In 2008, AAAS recycled nearly one - half, or 48 % of all solid waste generated in the building — 25.96 tons of commingled content such as cans, bottles, and plastic; 18.94 tons of mixed paper; and 36.6 tons of cardboard.

The association has managed to reduce daily water consumption by 39 % since 2007, while nearly half of all solid waste generated in the building is now being recycled, reported AAAS Building Manager Robert Zayas.

Westchester County's top five municipalities with the highest curbside recycling rates out of total solid waste generated in 2015 are: City of Rye: 30 %, New Castle: 29 %, North Castle: 29 %, Hastings: 28 %, Scarsdale: 28 %.

On - site recycling operations help minimize solid waste generated in our manufacturing operations.

We've also implemented a comprehensive recycling program in both facilities that allows us to continuously reduce the amount of non-recyclable solid waste we generate.

Not exact matches

Polystyrene foodservice packaging — ya know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight, of the total one percent of polystyrene products generated in municipal solid waste.

Polystyrene foodservice packaging — you know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight, of the total one percent of polystyrene products generated in municipal solid waste.

«These sorts of environmental benefits could also be genuinely beneficial to forward - thinking Australian meat companies looking to reduce their environmental impact, and generate energy from their wastes and by - products, both liquid and solid.

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

Further, the EPA reports more food goes into landfills nationwide than any other single material in municipal solid waste, and in 2010 alone Americans generated more than 34 million tons of food waste.

Disposable diapers generate sixty times more solid waste and use twenty times more raw materials, like crude oil and wood pulp.

AKASTex LLC (who purchased Wazoodle in 2012) says ``... the manufacturing process has no discharges of VOC [Volatile Organic Chemicals] or solvent fumes which helps keep air clean, and generates no solid waste, thereby supporting our efforts towards a clean environment while supplying our customers a high - quality product.»

The ten - year plan for the management of solid waste outlines how much solid waste is currently generated in Dutchess County and how much is currently recycled and reused.

The summary provides an update on Dutchess County's recycling rate, amount of waste generated last year, as well as an overview of activities and accomplishments as related to the County's «Rethinking Waste» Local Solid Waste Management Plan.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

Industries, like municipalities and other entities that generate wastes, dispose of many liquid wastes through wastewater systems (and ultimately to waterbodies), whereas they dispose of their solid wastes in landfills.

In Figure 2, it can be seen that in Circular Economy, natural resources, which are used as primary raw materials in the manufacturing process, are transformed into products for human consumption that will generate solid waste that, after it became a secondary raw material, it's used in manufacturing products, and so on.

The average Clark County resident generates 8 pounds of solid waste every day.

... - based on information provided by states - revealed that 250 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) were generated annually.

Wood, Wood Waste, Other Solid Waste: Covers purpose - grown energy crops (poplar, willow etc.), a multitude of woody materials generated by an industrial process (wood / paper industry in particular) or provided directly by forestry and agriculture as well as wastes such as straw, rice husks, crushed grape dregs etc..

As of 2010, 3.5 million tons of solid waste were generated per day and will rise to 6 million tons by 2025.

Consider that 20 years ago, 217 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) were generated and 58.6 million tons — 27 percent — were recycled or composted.

«(ii) electricity generated through the incineration of municipal solid waste owned by an electric utility or sold under contract or rate order to an electric utility to meet the needs of the retail customers of the utility;

-- The term «qualified waste - to - energy» means energy from the combustion of post-recycled municipal solid waste, or from the gasification or pyrolization of such waste and the combustion of the resulting gas at the same facility, if the owner or operator of the facility generating electricity from the energy provides to the Commission, on an annual basis --

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

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).

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.

Industrial activities currently generate nearly 7.6 billion tons of solid waste in the U.S. each year, 3,000 % of the total municipal waste generated by Americans annually; on the other hand, electronic waste is currently the fastest growing solid waste stream, growing two to three times faster than any other waste stream.