They may say 100 % organic, but that's a lot of
trash going to landfill.
But, the city is also trying to tame New Yorkers» consumption habits — cutting down the amount of plastic bags, bottles and takeout cups we use will ultimately mean less
trash going to landfills.
An article in the Toledo Blade, July 2002, (22) claimed that requests had been made to expand landfills in Northwest Ohio due to increasing amounts of
trash going to landfills.
Not exact matches
If you toss them into your
trash bin, they'll
go straight
to the
landfill and won't readily break down.
«
Trash, on the other hand, is far more indiscriminate because everything just
goes to one place, the
landfill.»
«So, there is a very intimate connection between what people put in their
trash and what comes out of
landfills, but people also need
to think about the fate of what doesn't
go into the
trash,» Pierrehumbert said.
More important and ultimately the key
to changing our historical pattern of discarding by dumping
trash in a
landfill is having somewhere for that
trash to go other than that
landfill.