Sentences with phrase «waste management efforts»

Currently, Terranea's waste management efforts divert 80 % of the resort's waste from landfills.

While the senator did not comment on a long - term waste management effort, his spokesperson noted that in May 2017, Markey sponsored the Dry Cask Storage Act, a bill that would essentially allow the NRC to give nuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approved plans.

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While blockchain has the ability to significantly improve identity management and security, that effort could go to waste the moment you put the key to all of that information in an app.

Management, accounting, and technical people also waste their time on low - margin accounts instead of supporting efforts to get more high - margin sales.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Sustainability Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw, Ga.) The University's 5,000 guest / day dining operation incorporates a comprehensive, closed - loop waste management program through a variety of efforts including a robust organic «Farm - to - Campus - to - Farm» program, water reclamation, aerobic digestion, composting / recycling programs, oil - to - biodiesel conversion and more to significantly reduce costs, minimize environmental impact and qualify the facility for a gold LEED certification.

Also worthy of commendation is the breakthrough recorded by the government in ridding Enugu metropolis of waste, especially at dump sites to ensure a clean environment, through the taskforce constituted to complement the efforts of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA).

Erin Crotty, acting commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation said, «The closure of Fresh Kills not only marks the culmination of years of effort to bring the state into the age of modern solid waste management practices, but presents a tremendous opportunity to turn this blighted landscape into an environmental success story.»

While Glenwood Management executive Charles Dorego continues to find himself involved in federal cases against former Albany politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, public documents have revealed the role of Dorego's ex-wife, attorney Doreen Small, in obscuring lobbying efforts against city waste removal initiatives.

According to the AMA, the program forms part of efforts to inculcate a waste management culture in the citizenry.

1999 Aleksandr Nikitin, in recognition of his outstanding efforts to protect the environment and human health by documenting the dangerous nuclear waste management practices in post-Soviet Russia.

New York, NY About Blog Return Recycling seeks to create a community around waste management, an effort that will promote further education, passion, and action in creating a sustainable and responsible waste system.

New York, NY About Blog Return Recycling seeks to create a community around waste management, an effort that will promote further education, passion, and action in creating a sustainable and responsible waste system.

Consensus is that the unsurmountable effort to implement any solid policy relating to long - term management of nuclear waste in the U.S. is centered around Yucca Mountain (Figure 3).

Thanks in part to his efforts, the Philippines became the first country ever to pass a nationwide ban on waste incineration with the Clean Air Act in 1999, followed shortly thereafter by the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act in 2001.

Their efforts included helping develop a more sustainable waste management system, along with a recycling outreach campaign — the first efforts to recycle in the community did not really stick with residents because there wasn't very comprehensive public outreach and education done for the program.

If you're constantly overruling or second - guessing or stymieing the best efforts of your qualified professional associates — if you just can't accept that someone without a law degree knows more about a business management issue than you do — then you're wasting time, missing opportunities and burning money.

Likewise, attorneys who've seen Legal Project Management in action, with project managers skilled in the techniques and art of managing professional (rather than engineering) projects, recognize that despite occasional frustrations project management generally gets them to the right destination with less wasted time aManagement in action, with project managers skilled in the techniques and art of managing professional (rather than engineering) projects, recognize that despite occasional frustrations project management generally gets them to the right destination with less wasted time amanagement generally gets them to the right destination with less wasted time and effort.

New York, NY About Blog Return Recycling seeks to create a community around waste management, an effort that will promote further education, passion, and action in creating a sustainable and responsible waste system.

New York, NY About Blog Return Recycling seeks to create a community around waste management, an effort that will promote further education, passion, and action in creating a sustainable and responsible waste system.

Highlights of the building's sustainability achievements include an Energy Star rating of 93, which places the building in the top 7 percent of similar buildings in terms of energy efficiency; use of highly - efficient plumbing fixtures providing water savings of approximately 17 percent; modifications to the building's irrigation system provide a 74 percent reduction in water use for irrigation, as well as a dedicated meter to monitor ongoing performance; recycling efforts resulting in a 45 percent diversion rate of recyclables from landfill of ongoing consumable waste and a 100 percent diversion rate of durable goods from entering the waste stream; an integrated pest management plan incorporating non-toxic measures for animal and vegetative pest control; and a green cleaning pProgram, implemented as part of a comprehensive building - wide indoor air quality program.