People can anticipate a decrease in the amount of trash ending up in landfills over time if solid waste production remains steady and recycling rates increase. 1. Analyze the context: The sentence states that solid waste production is steady, but recycling is increasing. 2. Understand the implica...
The United States was one of the top three countries exporting plastic waste to China when the latter country's ban on imported waste went into effect in 2018. The U.S., which had been "exporting around 4,000 shipping containers of garbage to China every day...[then]rerouted most of t...
Waste and losses in the production of minerals in the United Statesdoi:10.1016/S0016-0032(13)90894-2Journal of the Franklin Institute
Further, the United States is the second largest exporter of plastic scrap globally (16). If imported material is not properly managed in the receiving country, environmental inputs of plastic waste generated in the United States may be much higher than previously assessed. Here, we estimate plas...
In the United States alone over 100 million cell-phones are thrown away each year. Cell-phone are part of a a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants. The electronic waste stream is increasing three times faster than traditional garbage as a whole. Ele...
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。The United States wastes nearly 40 million tons of food every year, which 1S(be)about 30-40percent of the entire US food supply. Wasting food has consequences: it wastes the water and energy it took to produce it, and__...
A need exists for a national-scale full life cycle assessment of beef production through consumption in the United States. Process level simulation of archetypical cattle production systems throughout the nation were combined with information gathered for harvest, processing, retail, and consumption of ...
The 2011 Import and Export Market for Waste and Scrap of Alloy Steel in the United States. 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 16 作者:Parker,Philip M.摘要: Several charts and tables on the import and export market for waste and scrap of alloy steel in the U.S. in 2011 are presented depicting...
Quantities of end-of-life electronics (or e-waste) around the world keep growing. More than 1.36 million metric tons of e-waste were discarded, mainly in landfills, in the U.S. in 2005, and e-waste is projected to grow in the next few years. This study explores issues relating to pl...
In the United States alone,over 100 million cell-phones are thrown away each year. Cell-phones are part of a growing mountain of electronic waste like computers and personal digital assistants. The electronic waste stream is increasing three times faster than traditional garbage as a whole. Electr...