Sentence examples for landfill rate from inspiring English sources

Consequently, increasing the recycling rate and reducing landfill rate of C&D waste could not only improve the potential recycling economic values, but also dramatically reduce land use and potential environmental impacts.

These results expectedly exceeded the United States Environmental Protection Agency's rate constants for dry and conventional landfills (0.02 0.05 yr−1), but they are comparable to wet landfill rate constants derived using landfill gas data (0.1 0.3 yr−1).

"Recycling and waste-to-energy are complementary to achieve lower landfill rates".

Landfill rates dropped from 60% to less than 20% in a decade.

Even though Danes create more household waste than any other EU country, they have one of the lowest landfill rates: much of the waste is burned instead, to create energy.

Today the city has the highest landfill diversion rate in the country, and diverts 80percentt of its waste away from landfills, with a goal of eliminating waste entirely by 2020.

HANK PELLISSIER San Francisco diverts 77 percent of its waste, the best landfill-avoidance rate for any large city in the United States.

The life cycle of basic food items was studied in order to discover the reasons for low landfill diversion rates of this material.

At the present rate, landfill space in England will run out in nine years.

The landfill gas production rate is proportional to the organic substrate and is modeled as an exponentially decreasing function of time.

The magnitude of the benefits depends strongly on a number of model assumptions: the type of electricity displaced by waste-derived energy, how biogenic carbon is counted as a contributor to atmospheric carbon stocks, and the landfill gas collection rate.