He said the "groundbreaking initiative" was needed to help reduce the more than 30 million tons of waste produced in the UK every year.
There are more than 80 billion garments produced around the world today, and according to a study by the UK's Cambridge University, the industry is creating 70 million tons of waste water as of 2006 in the UK alone.
The runoff from 19 million tons of hog waste produced annually in Eastern North Carolina from the hog factories has polluted Abermarle Sound, the largest freshwater sound in the country, and adjacent Pamlico Sound, the largest enclosed saltwater sound.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than 4.6 million tons of e-waste end up in U.S. landfills.
In the United States, urban dwellers produce a whopping 250 million metric tons of solid waste every year.
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The plan was to produce 16 million gallons of jet fuel annually from 500, 000 tons of waste that would otherwise be destined for landfills.
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By 2015, the government intends to add 42 million tons of daily sewage treatment capacity to increase its urban waste water treatment rate to 85 percent.
By encouraging restaurant patrons to recycle food containers, the company has decreased its waste by about 30%, recovering one million tons of corrugated cardboard products alone in the past 10 years.
This would mean that the annual production of electronic waste would be slashed from the current six million tons to 1.5 million tons, according to EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstr m.
If Walmart is able to replicate their efforts on a national level, an 80 percent reduction in waste would be the equivalent of preventing 11.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
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