Sentences with phrase «total waste generated»

Diversion is determined by the percentage of the total weight of recyclables and food organics diverted from total waste generated.

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

The «recycling rate» refers to the proportion of total waste generated that is placed into blue carts (or blue bags) for recycling.

In late 2016, we set a new 2020 goal to reduce total waste generated by our plants.

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

On average, we throw away half of our plastics after just one use, and plastic accounts for 10 percent of the total 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.

This approach automatically excludes packaging and allows Tesco to generate a breakdown of total food waste down to the individual product level.

In total, the city's commercial establishments generate roughly one million tons a year of organic waste.

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 %.

Two years ago, the U.S. generated an astonishing 2.6 million tons of electronic waste, which is 1.4 percent of the country's total waste stream.

Over an 8 - week period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week and are in turn ranked in various categories based on who recycles the most on a per capita basis, as well as which schools have the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste and which schools generate the least amount of combined trash and recycling.

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.

Debating this topic is probably a total waste of time — that is my current thinking, and was before I decided in a moment of lunacy that a debate might generate useful discussion among those who accept mainstream science but are not motivated to act.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2009 about 3.8 million tons of waste plastic «bags, sacks and wraps» were generated in the United States, but only 9.4 % of this total was recycled.

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.

-LSB-... published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored)-RSB-

Or to point out that the published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored).