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Municipal Solid Waste (MSW): Basic Facts
Recycling Recycling, including composting, diverted 69.9 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000, up from 33 million tons in 1990. Typical materials that are recycled include batteries, recycled at a rate of 96.4%, paper and paperboard at 45.4%, and ...
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Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) - Home Page
ILSR, the Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) and Eco-Cycle, Stop Trashing the Climate concludes that reducing waste disposed in landfills and incinerators can have climate benefits equivalent to removing 21 ... playing field. This May 2008 report explores the economics of solar PV and concentrating solar and shows how local ownership is hindered unless government solar incentives change. View ...
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RECYCLED PRODUCTS: Paper, Supplies, Other Products
Paper bags, cardboard boxes, glass bottles, aluminum and tin cans, and some plastics are easily recycled. Avoid reliance on the word "degradable". A ... solid waste recycled into new products. Recycling reduces our reliance on landfills and incinerators. Recycling protects our health and environment when harmful substances are removed from the waste stream. Recycling ...
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From Food Blooms Flowers | Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Newsroom | US EPA
At the facility, high-quality organic compost is created and sold to local farms and wineries. Some of the compost is also given back to the schools for ... counties, cities, and states to use its development model. Like Food to Flowers!, we are making our own efforts to encourage the public to divert organic waste from landfills and incinerators. We recently developed ...
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Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle | Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) | US EPA
Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. In addition, it generates a host of environmental, financial, and social benefits. Materials like glass, metal, plastics, and ...
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OUr Earth
Recycling and composting diverted nearly 70 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000, up from 34 million tons in 1990—doubling in just 10 years. Recycling results in a net reduction in ten major categories of air pollutants and ...
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These municipalities, under law, must collect and dispose of household waste in areas of ... has greatly reduced the amount of waste brought to landfills and incinerators and has drastically increased the amount of materials reused and recycled. Although the above results can not completely ...
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Solid Waste Management: Texas
These sites (such as landfills and incinerators) can increase pollution, increase the risk of health problems such as chronic pulmonary diseases, and decrease property values. For these reasons, a ... been the case in the city of Houston. Ten solid waste sites (five incinerators, five landfills) were in operation in the city of Houston from the 1920s until the early ...
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[ Computer Take Back Campaign ]
To make matters worse, the FCC mandated transition to digital television (like HDTV) ... recycling. The other 87.5% went to landfills and incinerators, despite the fact that hazardous chemicals in them can leach out of landfills into groundwater and streams, or that burning the plastics ...
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The Goal is to Phase Out Landfills
She said the goal is to eliminate the use of landfills and incinerators for handling solid waste. She believes we must go back to the old, successful methods of taking care of solid waste — reduction, reuse and recycling. She began ...
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