The rest ends up as landfill, where rotting food is a major driver of climate change.
Recycling also keeps stuff out of landfill, where it can have further environmental impacts.
Used coffee grounds typically end up in landfill, where they emit methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
The Delaware Solid Waste Authority identified an 800-square-foot area in the Hardscrabble landfill where the dumpster was emptied.
The "open face" was not a sandwich, but the active section of the landfill, where fresh garbage was buried.
Fiscal Toxic Landfill: Where Congress' solution to the fiscal cliff in turn creates future budget crises to be solved by the legislatures of our children and grandchildren.
After finding the stern of an 18th-century sailing vessel in landfill where the new World Trade Center is being constructed, what could be better?
He never reviewed the restaurant, which seemed likely to end up in the same landfill where they'd deposited the carcass of Lehman Brothers.
Sometimes after you leave her apartment you walk out to the landfill where you and your brother played as children and sit on the swings.
The serenity of seagulls and canoes gave way to the heavy traffic of the Avenida Brasil street that cuts through the landfill where used to stay the mangrove.
Family members also dismissed the closed Fresh Kills landfill, where debris from the site is examined again by police officials determined to be respectful, as a dump.
