Sentences with phrase «stream going to landfills»

As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills in the US, accounting for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate change as food waste in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas.

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Companies across sectors have a difficult time measuring exactly how much of their waste stream is organic material and further understanding of how much of it is good, nutritious food that could go to those in need or be turned into energy or composted, as opposed to being sent to landfill.

Initiating a winery - wide single - stream recycling program, and installing a plastic bailer resulting in a 62 % reduction of the winery's solid waste going to landfills in the first year.

Discussed in this paper is promoting the feasibility of removing more paper from the waste stream that is now going to the landfill and using it to generate electricity.