There was even talk of mining old landfills to extract steel and aluminium cans.
They combined skills to push for support of rock quarries, landfills, hospitals and power plants.
That diverts from landfills about 97% of the weight of old machines on average, IBM says.
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Another big issue: Land is plentiful in the U.S., and therefore landfills are cheap.
Since 2005, the company has reduced its waste to landfills 32 percent per ton of product.
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Paper waste accounts for 40% of landfills, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection agency.
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Millions of PCs end up in landfills and storage cabinets in G8 countries year after year.
About 90 percent of plastic bottles end their lives in landfills, according to Treehugger.com.
In Britain landfills are taxed out of all proportion to the damage they do the environment.
The rest is thrown into landfills, exported as used products or scrap or just lost.
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Landfills without the benefit of a naturally impermeable layer use plastic liners and imported clay.
And methane can be made from any type of biomass at all, including sewage and landfills.
Conservancy officials said they want to reduce the amount of trash hauled from the park to landfills.
Now 98% of the nation's food waste goes into landfills, according to Harvest Chief Executive Paul Sellew.
And what prevents soil and surface water contamination from countless units that ultimately wind up in landfills?
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The rest of their revenue comes from hauling away trash and disposing of it, mainly in landfills.
Since space is scarce, three-quarters of all waste ends up in the furnace rather than in landfills.
Waitrose, the U.K.-based supermarket chain, in October achieved its goal of sending zero food waste to landfills.
They are piling up especially quickly in Europe, where dumping them into landfills was banned in 2006.
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The ultimate goal is to decrease the amount of electronic waste that ends up in landfills every year.
As landfills close and environmental awareness grows, many local groups and governments have developed recycling and disposal programs.
Recycled content is a way to divert waste from landfills and reduce the impact of mining virgin material.
But I wonder if they are that environmentally friendly if mercury ends up in our landfills and groundwater.
This is followed by recycling and disposal processes in order to minimize disposal and divert waste from landfills.
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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than 4.6 million tons of e-waste end up in U.S. landfills.
Particularly, the Plastiki is hoping to raise awareness about single-use consumer products that are filling landfills and the sea.
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In other words, 100 percent of waste from these facilities is recycled, reused or otherwise diverted from area landfills.
Diverting waste, especially plastic bags, from landfills is a win-win situation for everyone.
Close to 97% of food waste in North America ends up in landfills.
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And, methane can be made cheaply and easily from any type of biomass at all, including sewage and landfills.
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