Sentences with phrase «trash out of landfills»

The hilly city has a compost and recycling pick up routine that keeps a stunning 75 percent of trash out of their landfills.

It keeps trash out of our landfills, saves energy, preserves natural resources and wildlife, and reduces our carbon footprint.

Not only will your garden love this nutrient - rich addition, but composting is also great for the planet by keeping more trash out of landfills.

Using Warmies would be an environmentally conscious decision because the reusable wipes will keep tons of trash out of landfills.

Toronto has a extensive and progressive green bin and recycling program and aimed to keep 70 % of trash out of the landfill.

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This reduced the amount of trash generated at the facility and ensured that materials with recyclable value are kept out of landfills.

Americans add 570 million pounds of food packaging to their landfills each day, while pre-packaged foods force consumers to buy more than they need, stuffing their bellies and their trash bins: 27 percent of food brought into U.S. kitchens ends up getting tossed out.

«You're keeping trash and human waste out of landfills, saving money, and it's better for the baby.»

Cloth diapers keep more trash (and human waste) out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.

With so much trash taking up space in landfills, it's important that we do our part to keep what we can out of them.

Oh, and we think it is just marvelous that as opposed to these toys creating more waste in our landfills, each Green Toys ™ Stacking Cup actually was made with recycled materials, keeping even more trash out of mother earth!

Then there is another of the district's unquantifiable qualities: Staten Island's ingrained feeling of aggrievement, which grows out of its situation as an isolated suburban enclave tethered to America's largest metropolis, and out of the traumatic memory of the Fresh Kills landfill, where the city dumped other boroughs» trash for half a century.

French has said he would look to shut down the Resource Recovery Agency's burn plant once its contracts expire and ship the county's trash to an out - of - county landfill while the county creates an aggressive recycling program.

«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.

Key components of land - based sources include litter, trash and debris from construction, ports and marinas, commercial and industrial facilities, and trash blown out of garbage containers, trucks, and landfills.1 Ocean - based sources, such as, overboard discharges from ships and discarded fishing gear, account for the other 20 %.

Here are 3 recent reviews of mine for Hammer to Nail: I Am Not Your Negro, a new documentary (just nominated for an Academy Award) about James Baldwin; Landfill Harmonic, a documentary about children making music on instruments fashioned out of recycled trash; and the Criterion Collection's new Blu - ray release of Noah Baumbach's breakout third feature, The Squid and the Whale, about a family's dissolution in the wake of the parents» divorce.

The Map found in the Appendix (16) shows the impact of landfilling, especially for Monroe and Wayne counties, with four of the top five Landfills receiving out of state trash located in southeastern Michigan.

This is not really a unique situation since New York City, having closed their Fresh Kills Landfill in March 2001 which handled about 3.5 million tons of garbage annually, now pays one hundred ($ 100) dollars per ton to ship their trash out of the state of New York.

When the county runs out of space in the existing landfills it plans to site new landfills or ship the trash out to adjoining counties.

Okay so biodegradable bed pans are neither here nor there when it comes to your health, but seeing as hospitals have quite a large waste stream (not much that you can just trash when it comes to contaminated objects), this is one more way to keep what they can out of local landfills.

We Americans are pretty wasteful when it comes to food — it's the single largest type of municipal solid waste that ends up in landfills — and throwing it out with the trash leads to methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that makes carbon dioxide look harmless.

Once you add the Totality from mine to end of life and include the energy to clean and maintain the systems you are actually producing Far More CO2 and using Far more energy that you save with panels not to mention the nasty byproducts and materials that will find their way into landfills and the environment wen the systems are trashed out...

Recology is a program run out of the San Francisco Dump, bringing artists to the landfill to make new, beautiful things out of whatever they find coming in from trash cans.