Since 2005, the company has reduced its waste to landfills 32 percent per ton of product.
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Waitrose, the U.K.-based supermarket chain, in October achieved its goal of sending zero food waste to landfills.
Recycled content is a way to divert waste from landfills and reduce the impact of mining virgin material.
This is followed by recycling and disposal processes in order to minimize disposal and divert waste from landfills.
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By picking up unsorted trash less often, Portland wants to divert waste from landfills and churn this leafy city's considerable volume of vegetation into compost.
Putting waste in landfills is discouraged and even prohibited.
Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality insists the issue is a tempest in a garbage bag, pointing out that 80% of solid waste going into landfills last year was Michigan's own and that total waste fell by 5% last year.
Now 98% of the nation's food waste goes into landfills, according to Harvest Chief Executive Paul Sellew.
Ziploc wants the program to inspire families to embrace the importance of recycling at all levels and eventually divert more than 100 million pounds of waste from area landfills over the next two years.
The ultimate goal is to decrease the amount of electronic waste that ends up in landfills every year.
With other liquor companies that load the landfills and dump waste into the seas that surround the Caribbean, it is nice to know that there are efforts being made to keep our fragile earth clean.
Paper waste accounts for 40% of landfills, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection agency.
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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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The large volume of waste produced takes up valuable space in landfills.
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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And it points out that other methods of waste disposal, like putting it in landfills, can pose health risks, and it urges more frequent monitoring of dioxins from incinerators.
Companies that have their origin in social enterprise find that meeting commitments are part of their founding corporate DNA. New Jersey-based TerraCycle, for example, builds its products from non-recyclable waste that would otherwise be dumped in 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.
Since space is scarce, three-quarters of all waste ends up in the furnace rather than in landfills.
In other words, 100 percent of waste from these facilities is recycled, reused or otherwise diverted from area landfills.
Walmart updated its progress towards waste reduction goals in the state with an announcement that 80 percent of waste generated in the state is recycled, reused or otherwise diverted from area landfills.
Companies like Waste Management (NYSE: WM) have been installing turbines to convert captured methane gas from landfills into electricity for years.
Plastic waste is one of the worst forms of trash because it takes so long to degrade, thus overflowing our landfills and polluting our oceans and waterways.
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