Sentences with phrase «things going to landfill»

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The second thing for me was the amount of them that goes into the landfills each year, and how long it takes for them to break down.

Sister Eden recommends using items that are already going to the landfill to use for litter disposal instead of using a bag that otherwise wouldn't be thrown away — things like empty chip bags or cereal liners.

When we throw things «away» to a landfill they don't really go anywhere.

I do keep asking why it is a good thing to put this scrap into a countertop instead of recycling it; In 2008 Demir told me that» flake aluminum milling scrap burns before it melts, and has to be expensively compressed before it can be recycled, so it usually goes into landfills.»

However, for things like cell phones, they're much more valuable going through a recycling system than going to landfill because there is a healthy reuse market for them.

A lot of those 12 daily tons of waste still get landfilled, and all the waste and recycling has to go back to the mainland, to the landfill or to the recycling center; the only thing that doesn't leave is the organic waste, which is composted, or the biomedical waste (mostly from the hospital) which is burned on site.

UK supermarket chain Tesco can stick a feather in its waste - reduction cap: Its 2,300 - odd stores have managed to divert 100 % of their waste going into landfills nearly six months ahead of schedule — a decidedly good thing.