Dear Readers, While the majority of Australian councils and waste authorities have had significant success in diverting waste from landfill through residential recycling programs, and more recently, residential green organics collection and processing programs, the amount of waste still being disposed of ...
there’s a great show that aired over the last year that has had amassive impacton reducing waste, and it’s created change countrywide. We still have a long way to go, but this show has been a catalyst in many ways for that movement to grow. ...
Hospitals in the United States produce more than 5 million tons of medical waste each year.1Items used in operating rooms must be sterile, which creates the need for single-use items, most of which are either incinerated or sent to a landfill for disposal. We work with hospitals around the...
The $1 million grant will go towards the ongoing research of civil and environmental engineering professor Paul Imhoff, who has worked on landfill related research for 20 years. United States Waste & Recycling News
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newspaper and cardboard.By separating out the recyclable items from normal household trash,you can reduce the amount of trash entering a landfill by more than 75 percent. Recycling one aluminum beverage can(饮料罐)saves enough energy to run your television for three hours.Even...
The positive landfill situation, however, does not mean Dallas lacks ambition for recycling and waste reduction. Last, April, the city set an aggressive goal of reducing 40% of its MSW from the landfill by 1997. To help reach this mark over the next three years, the city has banned lead...
Sue Ryder has launched a recycling scheme to reduce waste and raise funds. The healthcare charity, which runs the Leckhampton Court Hospice in Cheltenham, found that, of those who are having a Christmas tree this year, over three in five (61%) South Wes
Reducing food waste Billions of pounds are thrown in the bin and over 1 million tonnes of food waste sent to landfill every year which could still have been eaten.Guardians of Grubhave lots of useful info about reducing food waste. TheirCost Saving Calculatorhelps businesses find out...
The simplest answer to this landfill issue is that we, the general public, first need to make a concerted effort to reduce the amount of items we throw out in our black bags by re-using and recycling as much of our household waste as possible. Although we've come a long way in the ...