The main disposal methods for municipal solid waste is open dumping and sanitary landfill. |
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He conceded the council accepted that maintenance work at the landfill was a likely contributory cause. |
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It seems a shame to dump this waste on landfill where it causes problems instead of recycling and reusing it. |
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About 40 protesters blockaded the Burnhills landfill last Saturday and prevented delivery of six wagonloads of waste. |
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Firefighters were battling against the clock to prevent the incident at Studley Grange landfill site from escalating into a major emergency. |
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Hazardous wastes should not be put out with normal household waste for landfill. |
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Concern arises because landfill sites are the primary means of disposing millions of tonnes of hazardous industrial waste. |
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Environment Agency chiefs say they will not be taking action against a controversial landfill site, despite calls for its immediate closedown. |
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Once they have been emptied, the sacks are not sent to landfill sites or thrown away. |
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In the area east of the Rock, Prince Rainier began a project twenty years ago to reclaim land from the sea by landfill and drainage. |
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His estimates included indirect costs such as management of the landfill, where staff store recyclable plastics, glass and paper. |
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The houses are built on the site of a former brick and tile works, where clay was extracted and the resulting hole filled with landfill. |
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But the same would be likely to apply to inert waste deposited at the County's exhausted minerals workings or landfill sites. |
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We are all aware that landfill disposal causes water pollution and produces methane gas, causing climate change. |
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Carnegie needs at least five dump trucks to haul trash to the Imperial landfill. |
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The latest details come a week after it was revealed that 1,300 tonnes of paper, cans and plastic bottles have been buried in landfill sites. |
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The Guildhall is facing Government targets to double the amount of recycled waste by 2004 and to cut the city's reliance on landfill disposal. |
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He expected DIY shops and paint companies would donate unwanted stock, saving them the cost of paying for disposal at landfill sites. |
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Disposal of domestic and industrial waste in landfill sites may expose local residents to dioxins and other chemicals. |
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In addition, he said the Government has imposed a landfill tax on the disposal of each ton of material at landfill. |
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There are but two types of waste demanding collection, and disposal at landfill sites, or controversially lately at incineration plants. |
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Green campaigners say kerbside recycling is the best way to reduce landfill instead of garbage-guzzling waste plants. |
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The Director points out that the high cost of landfill disposal together with increased collection costs meant the increases were necessary. |
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It suggests increased recycling, composting and diversion of waste away from landfill sites through alternative methods of waste management. |
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We all have to work to reduce landfill by reducing the volume of our refuse. |
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Half of this 20-acre site will be landfill with the remainder used for waste segregation, recycling and civic amenities. |
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As we all know the Government has given the council a target to reduce landfill which is perfectly understandable. |
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As well as making homes warmer and quieter, the project could help to reduce landfill. |
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The contracts, which lasted about 56 weeks, also saw 250,000 tonnes of clay from the nearby Far Ings site used as landfill. |
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Half a dozen might make a novelty set of drinks coasters, but a million amounts to about 17 tons of landfill. |
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Already the network claims to keep 20 tons of potential waste out of landfill every day. |
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The probability is that the remnants of a once proud fleet will end up as broken flotsam, landfill at the council dump. |
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It has also been revealed garden waste has been dumped in landfill because composting sites were unable to cope with the amount being collected. |
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This is about 250,000 items, of which only a tiny proportion is re-used, most being scrapped or put into landfill. |
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Each season, thousands of these trees are dumped in a city wood landfill called Camp Small. |
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And an effort to create a new landfill in a remote area of Ontario was blocked by environmentalists. |
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Haul paper containers to a sanitary landfill or burn them in an approved manner. |
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The residue was sent off to a solid hazardous waste landfill, until they refused to accept it. |
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She said they were saving the county council from having to landfill a tonne of material every two months. |
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Among the archaeological remains even an industrial wastes landfill found its place. |
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All landfills, including those not in use, produce landfill gases and leachate, or water that has permeated the surrounding soil. |
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How is the Government helping to ensure that more old tyres are reused or recycled instead of just ending up in the landfill? |
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Much of the wood and obviously reusable material which would usually be dumped into landfill has been reclaimed from disused sites. |
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I juggle my art making with time spent salvaging reusables from the landfill. |
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This includes a recognition of the continuing need for landfill for the majority of waste arisings from the County. |
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In six years the landfill site will be full and at present there are no plans to dig up more countryside for this. |
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In the past, the old surface was dug up with ear-splitting pneumatic drills and dumped at landfill sites. |
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The yard was like a landfill, and it looked as though the doorknob hadn't been sanitized in years. |
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People used our address as a backwoods landfill, depositing the unsought and the unclean. |
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People find themselves shin-deep in mesquite beans they don't know what to do with, and some of us feel guilty throwing them into the landfill. |
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By definition, it's a messy job for the sorters, and anything in a plastic bag goes straight to landfill. |
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Every household in Swindon produces an average of a ton of waste each year and most of it goes into landfill. |
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Churches in Bradford are set to benefit from a cash boost from the region's landfill sites. |
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Wood processing facilities have sprung up in many areas of the United States in recent years, particularly in areas with high landfill costs. |
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That remote, the video recorder and the whole Betamax domestic system is now landfill. |
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These disposable nappies end up in landfill sites where they can take up to 500 years to biodegrade. |
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But once the container hits the backyard compost pile or municipal landfill, it biodegrades in only a few weeks. |
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Countryside dwellers are planning direct action protests should a North Yorkshire landfill site be used to bury foot and mouth culled cattle. |
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Exeter designer Colin Lovekin wants to rescue old supermarket shopping trolleys from landfill sites and canals. |
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It is hoped that 1,600 tonnes of garden waste, which would normally find its way into landfill sites, will be turned into compost. |
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The Government wants the use of environmentally-damaging landfill sites cut, and it has set targets across the country. |
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They now intend seeking permission to retain and continue using the landfill site at Emo Park. |
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Households in Wiltshire produce around 250,000 tonnes of household rubbish that currently goes into the county's landfill sites. |
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Remarkably and against all odds, the drugs are sometimes seen when the truck unloads at the Michigan landfill. |
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Cases of babies born with low birth weights are five per cent higher near landfill sites. |
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Consideration should be given to refusing planning permission for new build housing adjacent to landfill sites. |
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The asbestos has to then be put into large, approved bags before being taken away to a landfill tip to be buried underground by the contractors. |
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From August 1, butchers and other meat traders will no longer be able to send surplus or unfit meat to be disposed of at landfill rubbish sites. |
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Glass bottles and jars and aluminium drink cans should not be sent to landfill. |
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The service will see more than 100 tonnes of organic waste diverted from landfill each year. |
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Hundreds of carcases of dead sheep have been disposed of in a landfill site near Chesterfield without the prior knowledge of the local council. |
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We are virtually surrounded by opencast and landfill with the promise of another 30 years of the same. |
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He said a landfill project could be constructed which would include a road for bicyclists and beach strollers. |
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The contribution by Manning emphasizes the similar processes that occur in subaqueous sediments and in landfill sites. |
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When the new guidelines are released later this summer, neither he nor anyone else expects the government to ban landfill developments outright. |
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The bottom liner of a landfill has, as a minimum, a drainage layer overlying a moisture-barrier layer of compacted clay. |
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The virtual townscape becomes choked with black smoke, dumper-trucks work overtime carrying waste to the landfill site, fires rage. |
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All their packaging is biodegradable, and should have completely dissolved within 14 weeks of going into a landfill. |
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Incineration also reduces the space requirements devoted to the noxious landfill facility. |
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And, you know, is it best to be incinerating that waste material or putting it in landfill, which is what's going on at the moment. |
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This would drastically cut the amount of waste being dumped in landfill sites and reduce the risk of waste incinerators being built in our area. |
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Finding alternative space for landfill is now a priority, according to acting county manager Peter Carey. |
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And some have gone even further, fighting waste by taxing landfill space or encouraging conservation by taxing electricity and water. |
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Now anyone with a coupla grand and enough ambition can produce useless plastic junk that will end up in a landfill. |
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Allowing Bradford's garbage to be dumped in Skibeden will hasten the day this landfill site is full. |
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Although glass bottles are regularly recycled, there is plenty of plate glass from demolitions and renovations which ends up as landfill. |
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Recycling and waste reduction are critically important as we try to cut our dependency on landfill sites. |
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A member of staff confirmed that any bags of tin cans left anywhere other than in the skip would be destined for landfill. |
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The putrescible landfill materials have also been shown to be generating landfill gas in significant quantities. |
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Waste Watchers is a pilot project to divert waste from the landfill through composting, grasscycling and recycling. |
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Grassclippings are a large portion of the waste stream so grasscycling will help reduce the amount of waste going to the landfill. |
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Save yourself a ton of money and the local landfill a ton of space, and buy reusable cloth diapers. |
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Recently both the Times and the New York Daily News have editorialized in favor of reopening the Fresh Kills landfill. |
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Another problem with landfill is fluid polluting groundwater and getting into the water supply. |
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Pressure-treated lumber is not classified as a hazardous waste material, so the scraps can be disposed of at any landfill. |
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By recycling these items they are diverted from landfill avoiding the associated environmental problems. |
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By dispensing with such waste at home rather than putting it in dustbins, householders can reduce the amount dumped in landfill. |
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How many readers have stood at the top of a landfill site and watched the dustcarts tipping their day's load of rubbish? |
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Major environmental concerns of sanitary landfill operation are paper blowing, dust, noise, traffic, odors, rodents and flies, and fires. |
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This chapter provides the reader with a background in the fundamental elements involved in the design of a modern sanitary landfill. |
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Four weeks ago, his family removed his expensive headstone from his grave, pulverized it, and placed the remains in a landfill. |
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Most of the earth moved was landfill, leftovers from the 1960s metro digs. |
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Infectious waste must be treated before disposal in a municipal landfill. |
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The compensation is to paid in recognition of the inconvenience caused by additional traffic going to and from the landfill and averages out at 6500 a year. |
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A number of potentially toxic chemicals, including sulphuretted and aromatic compounds, were identified at high concentrations in the raw landfill gas. |
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Be it climate change, landfill overspill, or any other problem the time is here to hit the filth-monger very, very hard through the taxation system. |
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In the absence of information on site or geological factors affecting emissions from landfill, we examined data for special waste sites as a proxy for potential hazard. |
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Residents and businesses in North Wiltshire need to do more to reduce, reuse and recycle waste to ensure that we do not need excessive areas of landfill in the future. |
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For those in the resource world, every ton of junk that goes into a landfill represents wasted energy. |
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When a pumpkin is sent to the landfill, it rots, emitting methane, an alarmingly potent greenhouse gas. |
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The local rat population from the nearby landfill site have been lapping up the bonanza of discarded and unused sweetcorn, groundbait and pellets. |
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Covering 13 acres of a landfill no longer in use in West Nyack, it has a generating capacity of 2.36 megawatts. |
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Students across the country are sleuthing around schools to see if they're using the right lightbulbs for energy efficiency or recycling to save landfill space. |
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Some parts of the UK are running out of space for landfill sites and, where they do exist, they are understandably disliked by the local population. |
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We could turn potato peelings into compost instead of landfill. |
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Infiltration of surface water and groundwater into a landfill results in water passing through waste in the landfill, which frequently picks up contaminants from the waste. |
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A variety of conversion technologies, including ones that use landfill gas to generate electricity, are being explored by garbologists in Europe and the United States. |
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A group of tweenie girls set about rescuing a beleaguered tree living next to a landfill in this spirited play about the dangers of corporate excess and waste. |
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As disposable nappies mount up in landfill sites, and new research questions their suitability for babies in the first place, Rob Edwards considers the alternatives. |
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By recycling old carpets the team hope to reduce the pressure on landfill sites and provide a low-cost alternative to underlays currently available. |
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At the end of October, the first landfill solar field in New York State was completed. |
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It monitored the water and assessed the impact of leakage from landfill, sewage plants and septic tanks, and spreading agricultural fertilisers and chemicals on land. |
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Five landfill sites will be open, but with skeleton staff only. |
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This is in contrast to domestic rubbish, the vast bulk of which is dumped in landfill, and to human waste which requires treatment before being released into waterways. |
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Now WRG is seeking approval from the Environment Agency for its plan to landfill the site in three phases over the next 10 years at a rate of 250,000 tonnes a year. |
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We also look at a new National Packaging Covenant between industry, local councils and consumers, that should reduce the litter and waste to landfill created by packaging. |
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All the leachate drains by gravity from the leachate collection layer to a sump, from which it is pumped out of the landfill for treatment and disposal. |
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Some of the three million domestic refrigerators which are discarded every year in the UK used to be exported for re-use, re-conditioned or buried in landfill sites. |
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Failure to account for an unmeasured risk factor could have artificially inflated or deflated the relative risks for the landfill versus reference areas. |
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Nationally we will be increasing the waste going to landfill in direct opposition to the EU requirements to reduce compostable waste going to landfill. |
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This means that all newspapers, cardboard and plastic drinks bottles can now be easily disposed of, instead of having these items dumped in landfill sites. |
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Bergin Waste Disposal is the Ballaghdreen based waste contractor operating this initiative in a drive to encourage more recycling and less waste disposal to landfill. |
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Should the product end up in a landfill, it will biodegrade. |
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The idea is to restrict builders and other tradesmen who use the site on a daily basis rather than paying for their vans and lorry loads to be tipped at landfill sites. |
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Refuse collectors are instructed only to collect rubbish left in the bins and no other bags, in an attempt to reduce landfill and encourage recycling. |
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The company told the Blessington Forum, a representative body of the town's businesses, that it was considering turning the dump into a legal landfill. |
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We have made no secret of our support for a carbon tax, a toxics tax, a return to resource rentals in fisheries, levies on waste to landfill, and a range of other eco-taxes. |
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Those worried about untidiness should try living next to a landfill site with the lorries, dust, seagulls, smells, ground water pollution and health risks that go with it. |
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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 36 million tons of food end up in the landfill each year. |
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MillerCoors changed its production process at its largest facility, in Golden, Colorado, so no waste is sent to any landfill. |
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San Antonio was the home of the first landfill in the country to be covered by solar panels. |
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Hamm is an aggregates, landfill, and asphalt and construction company with 250 employees. |
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By segregating food waste from the other waste, they can send the food waste to anaerobic digestion energy sites instead of landfill. |
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At the moment we send a billion pairs of sequined harem pants and mustard micro skirts to landfill every year. |
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As a result, these end up in the landfill, together with toxins such as plasticisers, fillers, and colour additives that are not biodegradable. |
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The borough's Clockface Quarry, Scammonden, landfill has a permitted tonnage of 350,000 per annum. |
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A number of these pits are now being used as landfill sites for domestic and commercial waste. |
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Entire neighborhoods such as the Marina, Mission Bay, and Hunters Point, as well as large sections of the Embarcadero, sit on areas of landfill. |
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Other sources of methane, the principal component of natural gas, include landfill gas, biogas, and methane hydrate. |
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This method is more efficient than just capturing the landfill gas it produces. |
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Like landfill gas, biogas is mostly methane and carbon dioxide, with small amounts of nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen. |
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Biogas, and especially landfill gas, are already used in some areas, but their use could be greatly expanded. |
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Increasingly, however, office buildings and industrial uses are made on a completed landfill. |
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An example of a Class A office building constructed over a landfill is the Dakin Building at Sierra Point, Brisbane, California. |
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Still the global warming potential of the landfill gas emitted to atmosphere is significant. |
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It consists of the Macau Peninsula itself and the islands of Taipa and Coloane, which are now connected by landfill forming Cotai. |
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Close to its source at Heald Foot, the water is polluted by the remains of past opencast mining activities and a landfill site. |
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Locally produced inert waste for disposal is sent to landfill at the Beal Valley. |
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Virginia Beach actually had a large landfill before it was turned into a public park. |
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Of course using washables ensures parents avoid the thorny issue of disposable nappies and over-full landfill sites. |
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There are other landfill sites coming up which will provide a stern test to Mandur, and may even strip it of its title as ' Bengaluru's wastebin. |
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The landfill of history is packed with teams that peaked too soon. |
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By collecting mixed recyclates together we will also be providing a user-friendly service, diverting business waste away from landfill. |
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Recycling benefits the environment by reducing the need for landfill space and incineration. |
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Globus says that without its EBT additive, nitrile can take decades to biodegrade and break down in landfill areas. |
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The Prince George's County, Md, detention center is one correctional facility using landfill gas as an energy source. |
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But the students covered evidence that the Wallkill landfill contains massive amounts of toxic waste that may be leaking through a liner. |
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The ardent hope in the room is that those in power will simply find it politically untenable to keep the landfill open. |
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But there is little chance that the sun will reach material buried dozens of feet deep in a landfill. |
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Many correctional facilities may be located close to landfills and therefore benefit from direct landfill gas use. |
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Sita UK, the site operator, argues that it remains a strategically important landfill site for waste that cannot be recycled. |
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In December of 2004, we entered into a contract with WMI to operate the system on the Chastang landfill site. |
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With limited landfill space available for the future, mattresses consume 600 percent more compactible space than normal compactible trash. |
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In 2003, no material from HP LaserJet print cartridges returned and recycled through Planet Partners was sent to landfill. |
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Every piece of garbage that is diverted from a landfill is a penny saved. |
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During this step, four 40-cubic-yard dumpsters of cement debris, nonrecyclable plastics, and rotting wood were taken to the landfill. |
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Once in a landfill, moisture will penetrate a countertop and the toxic chemicals inside, such as urea formaldehyde resin, are released. |
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A northeastern Ontario entrepreneur is hawking an environmental-friendly spray-on application to keep more countertops out of the landfill. |
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The body of a newborn baby was found by garbage collectors at Al Sajjah landfill in Sharjah on Sunday morning. |
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Most people fly-tip either out of laziness, negligence or to avoid paying the disposal fee known as landfill tax. |
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The new support mechanism is applicable to nearly all kind of renewables, and especially biogas, biomass, landfill gas, solar, wind, and small hydroelectricity. |
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Leachate is landfill water, waste water that is generated in landfills. |
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We had an old, worn out ice chest, destined for the landfill. |
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Under the scenario presented by T n T Recovery, 0 percent would have been saved for re-use, up to 95 percent recycled and the remaining debris placed in a landfill. |
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In fact, renewable natural gas or biomethane can be produced from any organic material, including landfill gas, sewage, animal and crop waste and even energy crops. |
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Its gasifier takes in unrecyclable waste which would otherwise go to landfill and gasifies it to produce syngas, in turn powering an electrical generator. |
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The Rethink Waste revenue grants are aimed at projects that will contribute to the reduction of waste to landfill through recycling or reuse activity. |
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The unadopted lane, between the American Golf Driving Range and a former landfill site, is frequently waterlogged and is known as Birmingham's most pot holed road. |
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The Garlaff landfill site covers the whole of East Ayrshire. |
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He said that the waste collected at the MSW Transfer Station would be transferred immediately to a designated eco-friendly sanitary landfill site in the region. |
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The fire proved tricky to tackle as it was based in the middle of the landfill site and crews had to utilise extra lengths of hose reel to reach the incident. |
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In 1994, the Yancey-Mitchell County municipal landfill closed, putting 350,000 tons of garbage under a solid clay cap and a thin covering of grass. |
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Both have their own separate issues, although most landfill experts agree that proper operating techniques on the part of the site operators can solve most problems. |
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More than 25 members of Troop 622 volunteered Saturday to help him set up the boxes and perches at the landfill, 2801 Madera Road, just north of the Simi Valley Freeway. |
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Because the foam biodegrades rapidly, he adds, its breakdown products should consume less landfill space than either polystyrene foam or cardboard. |
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Then we began the arduous task of recreating the oak scrubforest, pine-oak forest, and ericaceous, or acid-loving, shrubland that existed before the landfill. |
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Hazardous waste must be pretreated before disposal at landfill. |
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Introducing kerbside caddies for food waste will ultimately contribute towards a significant decrease in the amount of waste being sent to landfill by Cardiff. |
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In Dover, Woodmont Properties is the designated redeveloper for the entire 75-acre former landfill site, not just the 10-acre hotel property, called Hilton Homewood Suites. |
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The city has experienced bush fires, landfill fires, and pollution from the two industrial zones in the north and the south of the metropolitan area. |
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In some countries, large amounts of landfill gas are collected. |
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Landfill gas is created by decomposition of waste in landfill sites. |
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The Royal Albert Hall, a large concert hall, is sometimes used as a unit of volume in the UK, for example when referring to volumes of rubbish placed in landfill. |
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For example, the zoning restrictions for landfills usually take into account the heavy truck traffic that will exert expensive wear on the roads leading to the landfill. |
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The Agency is the regulatory authority for all waste management activities including the licensing of sites such as landfill, incineration and recycling facilities. |
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The solids would then be dumped at a federally approved toxics landfill. |
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Shopkeepers and market traders throughout the town are being encouraged to stop giving out plastic bags to shoppers in an effort to reduce the quantity sent to landfill. |
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Disassembling carpentry and joinery, stocks, frames and window sills with loading and disposal at the landfill designated by the supervisory authority. |
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Campus based stationary fuel cells, depend on landfill and wastewater treatment plants to provide gas for providing energy to manufacture hydrogen. |
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We do a lot of the hydrogeological work, landfill monitoring and ground water studies where you're looking at the flow of ground water through a site. |
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The landfill has a long history of odor complaints and hydrogen sulfide emissions exceeding the recommended safety level and is suspected of harboring subsurface fires. |
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