More than a third of the food made in the United States is never eaten, it is a waste of resources used to produce it and causing a variety of environmental impacts. 22 percent of municipal solid waste is landfilled and incinerated, respectively. Reducing food waste offers opportunities to increase food security, increase productivity and …
The production of food that is not consumed unnecessarily consumes natural resources, generates greenhouse gas emissions and creates waste. In order to assess the environmental impact of a food product, we need to consider its entire life cycle and track every step of the food supply chain. We can consider three indicators: the carbon footprint, …
The amount of plastic produced in Japan has come down from its 1997 peak of 15,210,000 tons but remained level for a number of years, with 14,650,000 tons produced in 2007. The total amount of plastic waste also remained stable, with 9,940,000 tons emitted in 2007. Household waste accounted for 5,020,000 tons (down60,000 tons) of …
Types of homestead gardening include: Square Foot Gardening Rooftop Gardening Container Gardening Vertical Gardening Backyard Gardening Raised Bed Gardening Trellis Gardening Companion Gardening You can also use a combination of these types of landscaping depending on your needs depending on the type of plant you choose, taking into account other factors like sunlight, water, and …
Complete Organic Fertilizer Recipe To make a completely natural fertilizer suitable for generously covering an area of 100, square feet, you can choose from the following: 3 quarts oilseed meal 1/2 quarts feather meal Best is probably: 2 quarts oilseed meal, 1 pint Feather Meal and 1 pint Fish Meal plus Mixture of: 1-quart Soft …
Deciding what to plant is one of the most difficult decisions you will ever make. It’s not easy to resist the temptation to plant almost everything at once. If you don’t remove all the yield and let some rot in the soil, you’ll find some tomatoes popping up in odd places in your garden. Spring …
Every day, mountains of used consumer goods and plastic packaging end up in landfills, wasting the materials and energy that went into creating them. Reduction and reuse can divert millions of tons of trash from landfills every year. We offer the following tips to inspire you to reduce, reuse and eliminate plastic from your life, …
Many years of technological development now allow plastic waste to be recycled by a number of methods. They can be divided into 3 major types.(1) Mechanical recycling(2) Feedstock recycling (monomerization, blast furnace reducing agent, coke oven chemical feedstock recycling, liquefaction, etc.) (3) Thermal recycling (cement kilns, energy recovery from waste, RDF, RPF). Recycling technology has …
Plastics are made out of natural components like cellulose, natural gas, coal, salt, oil through a process of polymerization or polycondensation. Plastics are primarily highly polymerized compounds of carbon and hydrogen, made from substances such as oil and natural gas. Crude oil is heated and first cracked to extract substances with a simpler structure (i.e.like …
Reducing plastic is of course particularly problematic because it is not biodegradable and therefore lasts much longer than other forms of waste. A few small steps in everyday life would help keep plastic out of the waste stream. Tips to reduce plastic waste: Avoid using single-use plastics 90% of the plastic items in our daily …
