Sentences with phrase «total landfill waste»

Adult diapers, or incontinence pads as they are otherwise known, amounted to less than one percent of total landfill waste just two decades ago.

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In addition to representing 17 percent of the total waste stream, food decomposing in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.

This means that less than 1 % of the total waste generated by the plant is used in landfill.

Carpet Recycling UK could be on track to meet its ambitious 60 per cent diversion rate by 2020 as the total volume of carpet waste diverted from landfill reached 42 per cent in 2017.

Stasz cited statistics showing that confusion around product date labeling accounts for only about eight percent of total food waste sent to landfills by consumers.

Reducing food waste also impacts climate change as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come from landfills.

Disposable diapers are one of the largest contributors to landfills; in Canada, they represent approximately 3 % of total residential waste.10 The 2008 Municipal Waste Report from the EPA indicated that in the US, diapers contribute 2.3 % of the weight of all products discarded.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

This is yet another example, DFW Chevy lovers, of how GM is continuously striving for improvement and reducing its carbon footprint, and has committed to achieve 25 more landfill - free sites and reduce total waste another 10 percent by 2020.

The over-all winner in the landfill sweepstakes was Pennsylvania in 1993 (12) which received one fourth of the nation's total waste imports at 3,847,000 tons.

Approximately 70 percent of the total waste generated by events is diverted from landfills.

Drawing on the work of previous Fox productions such as 24: Live Another Day, this year's The X-Files event series was able to divert 81 % of the production's total waste from landfill, use 100 % FSC certified mahogany for set construction, recycle 100 % of the aluminum and steel used in set construction, and avoid 33 tonnes of CO2 emissions, generating nearly $ 41,000 in cost savings.

According to CSIR studies, 13 million people go hungry every day, 20 % of households are food insecure, South Africans throw away almost 10 million tonnes of food per year (more than the UK), 30 % of all agricultural production ends up as waste to landfill, and the total cost of food waste is estimated at R61.5 billion per year.