#landfill — Public Fediverse posts

♻️ “To disrupt this systemic waste, workplace design and build firm Oktra has partnered with #CircularEconomy platform Material Index. Using A I-driven site audits, material passports, and a network of over 300 trade partners, the collaboration aims to keep high-value fit-out elements – ranging from acoustic ceiling tiles to task chairs – out of #Landfill skips and inside a closed-loop marketplace.”

https://www.designweek.co.uk/how-oktra-and-material-index-are-rethinking-commercial-fit-out-waste/

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The ACT requires all packaging at public events be recyclable or compostable but most of it ends up in landfill

There is something very wholesome happening at ACT events when you are eating your food truck treats from…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #canberra #compostabletakeawaycontainers #landfill #Packaging #recyclablecontainers #reusable #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/702747/

The ACT requires all packaging at public events be recyclable or compostable but most of it ends up in landfill

There is something very wholesome happening at ACT events when you are eating your food truck treats from…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #canberra #compostabletakeawaycontainers #landfill #Packaging #recyclablecontainers #reusable #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/702747/

The ACT requires all packaging at public events be recyclable or compostable but most of it ends up in landfill

There is something very wholesome happening at ACT events when you are eating your food truck treats from…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Canberra #compostabletakeawaycontainers #landfill #Packaging #recyclablecontainers #reusable #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/735052/

The ACT requires all packaging at public events be recyclable or compostable but most of it ends up in landfill

There is something very wholesome happening at ACT events when you are eating your food truck treats from…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Canberra #compostabletakeawaycontainers #landfill #Packaging #recyclablecontainers #reusable #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/735052/

The ACT requires all packaging at public events be recyclable or compostable but most of it ends up in landfill

There is something very wholesome happening at ACT events when you are eating your food truck treats from…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #canberra #compostabletakeawaycontainers #landfill #packaging #recyclablecontainers #reusable
https://www.europesays.com/australia/30748/

#Food for thought
[Graphic from Vgraphsinsta which is a bit thin on science and methodology unfortunately]
#dematerialization #lifecycle #waste #landfill #persistence #environmental #resourceefficiency

#Landfill Dumped In Early #EisenhowerEra Through Swinging #SanFrancisco 60s And Supposedly Sealed Off In 7😀's is Leaching Into The #PacificOcean

The site buried under bulldozed boulders at Mussel Rock Beach along the #SanMateo #Seashore gurgles up #garbage including easily read old newspapers from the early 1960s.

The dreaded #CaliforniaCoastalCommission could hit #DalyCity resident #taxpayers with huge fines, but current denizens of this working class enclave object to being blamed for poor planning by bureaucratic buffoons in decades past, putting #toxic heavy metals and ammonia into ground water as well as the sea itself..

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/26/old-landfill-that-closed-47-years-ago-continues-to-leak-trash-into-pacific-ocean/?share=uthrdriocammrpe2uowc

#BayArea #StupidHumans #GiftLink #SharedLink #PaywallLift

This is the kind of BULLSHIT that the #PenobscotNation have been dealing with for years! WTF!

#Maine opens door for #landfill expansion despite community objections

By: Emma Davis - October 3, 2024

"The #JuniperRidgeLandfill is a step closer to an expansion that would allow for roughly 11 more years of use, despite continued objections from local residents and advocates concerned about the landfill’s impact on air and water quality in the region.

"In a decision released Wednesday, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection Melanie Loyzim determined there is a substantial public benefit from a proposal to increase the capacity of the facility in #OldTown and Alton, which means the #Casella subsidiary that operates it can now submit an application for a license to expand the facility.

"The decision has not stymied opposition. The #ConservationLawFoundation, an environmental advocacy organization, is prepared to challenge the determination, according to director of communities and toxics Alexandra St. Pierre.

"'This decision recklessly gambles with public health and the environment,' St. Pierre wrote in a statement following the decision. 'It dismisses the serious concerns raised by the Penobscot Nation and other nearby residents about the harmful effects this expansion will have on their health and community. We refuse to allow this dangerous expansion to proceed unchecked.'

"Juniper Ridge Landfill is owned by the state but managed by the Bureau of General Services, which contracts with #NEWSMELandfill Operations, LLC, a subsidiary of the waste management company #CasellaWasteManagement.

"Opened in 1993 and last expanded in 2017, the landfill currently disposes of just over half of landfill waste in Maine and is expected to exhaust its current capacity by 2028. BGS has proposed expanding the landfill by 61 acres, which at the current fill rate of about 1 million cubic yards of waste per year, would allow for roughly 11 more years of use.

"The #MaineDEP concluded that Casella’s proposed expansion is needed to meet Maine’s short- and long-term waste capacity needs and is consistent with the state’s waste reduction plans. From 2018 to 2022, Maine’s landfill waste increased by 24%. Waste generation continues to increase at approximately 5.6% per year.

"Further, the DEP determined that the expansion doesn’t conflict with #EnvironmentalJustice [BULLSHIT] — a new factor that had to be considered under a state law passed in 2021 — that is, as long as Casella meets a few conditions.

Environmental justice was among the concerns raised by environmental groups, local residents and the Penobscot Nation during public comment.

"The public argued there was insufficient treatment of landfill leachate — water that collects chemicals after passing through the waste — specifically for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, otherwise known as PFAS, which runs into the #PenobscotRiver.

"The Penobscot Nations’s reservation at Indian Island is located FIVE MILES from the landfill and also includes the Penobscot River, along which Juniper Ridge is located."

Read more:
https://mainemorningstar.com/2024/10/03/maine-opens-door-for-landfill-expansion-despite-community-objections/
#WaterIsLife #PFAS #PenobscotRiver #Biosolids #WabanakiConfederacy #EnvironmentalDestruction #EnvironmentalRacism