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GAIA
The initial three GAIA workgroups are focused on specific waste streams: Municipal Discards/Zero Waste, Hazardous Waste, and Medical Waste (GAIA's medical waste work is implemented in ...
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GAIA
Municipal Discard | Medical Waste | Hazardous Waste | Clean Production MUNICIPAL DISCARD/ZERO WASTE WORK GROUP The Municipal Discards/Zero Waste Workgroup works to stop incineration of municipal discards and to promote ... term "municipal solid waste," this workgroup chose to use the term 'municipal discards" to promote a new paradigm of viewing materials in the municipal waste stream as discards with ...
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Environmental Education, Water Pollution, Teaching Pollution
Eco-ArtWare.com -- Wearable art and home furnishings created from trash, discards and natural materials. See our cufflinks and earrings from typewriter keys, origami clocks ... for professionals in the erosion and sediment control industry. Nonpoint Source Education for Municipal Officials or NEMO is a University of Connecticut, Cooperative Extension System project using ...
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From Food Blooms Flowers | Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Newsroom | US EPA
Resource Conservation Challenge within the national priority area of Municipal Solid Waste and Recycling. Food Hierarchy EPA's food waste hierarchy is designed to ... Feed Animals – Provide food to farmers Industrial Uses – Provide fats for rendering and food discards for animal feed production Composting – Convert food scraps into a nutrient rich soil amendment ...
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Batteries | Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) | US EPA
C, AA, coin, button, rechargeable). On average, each person in the United States discards eight dry-cell batteries per year. Alkaline and Zinc-Carbon Batteries Alkaline batteries, the ... of the Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act (PDF) (21 pages, 736K, about PDF) Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: Facts and Figures This report describes batteries and other ...
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[ Computer Take Back Campaign ]
EPA. Rapid advances in technology mean that ... % of the heavy metals, including lead, mercury and cadmium, in landfills come from electronic equipment discards. The health effects of lead are well known; just 1/70th of a teaspoon of ...
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[ Computer Take Back Campaign ]
A strong argument holds that when producers must manage their own discards, they have a strong incentive to design equipment that's nontoxic and easy to recycle ... it together, the better. Electronic waste is now considered the fastest-growing segment of the municipal waste stream in the United States. The National Safety Council estimated in 2004 that by ...
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Conservatree
In a resource management system, recycling is recognized as the centerpiece for managing residents’ discards. Garbage is secondary and only constitutes what has not been recycled. Modern recycling collects ... – values that sheer economic forces are not comprehensive enough to take into account. Municipal governments are the only participants in community recycling systems that hold enough of the ...
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BUILDING BLOCKS
... stewardship and producer responsibility both require an understanding that the old municipal responsibility model is not adequate to address the continuing cycle of the ... municipal structures, elected officials and the public often draw an unfair comparison between the familiar model of waste disposal, which collects discards and charges to waste them, and materials recovery, which collects discards ...
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REUSE
Other areas, such as the recovery and re-direction of food discards, although also not new, are important because they establish a new link between the field ... of art and office supplies, furniture, and art equipment from businesses, individuals, and cultural and municipal sources, and stores them for reuse. Donors receive a tax deduction for the fair market ...
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