Sentence examples for divert waste from inspiring English sources

Experts said the use of incinerators had consequences for recycling as local authorities were forced to divert waste to feed the plants.

In Sweden, the construction sector committed itself to a voluntary EPR action plan to divert waste from landfills in the mid-1990s.

"They divert waste from landfill here and they reduce greenhouse gas emissions", he noted, referencing in particular the renewable energy benefits of waste-derived fuel, which is increasingly used as an alternative feedstock to coal in power generation.

'Recycling?' " Indeed, one of the major reasons to have recycling bins on streets and in transit hubs is not to divert waste — they capture just a fraction of a city's total waste stream — but to build the recycling habit and reinforce the message that recyclables are not really garbage.

He said Peekskill politicians had won support from the N.A.A.C.P., which had expressed concerns about a wealthy white town's shipping waste to a blue-collar city with a large black population, and from Yonkers leaders, who were resisting a smaller plan to divert waste from New Castle to their city.

These independent scrapstores are run for community benefit by staff and volunteers who divert waste from businesses that would be destined to end up in land-fill and distribute it to schools and over 74,000 community groups to use for arts, crafts and play.

Using natural resources more efficiently ought to divert wasted capital to more productive investment.

She would very likely need a colostomy, a procedure to divert wastes out through an opening cut in the abdomen, and would have to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her life.

The loans are repaid with the profits from diverting waste from landfills and selling the materials.

The city also envisions diverting waste by trying out new technologies to convert garbage into heat and electricity.

Their work in diverting waste from landfill, as well helping with the maintenance of the building, has resulted in considerable financial savings for the shopping centre.