• Pacific Coast Waste and Recycling, LLC (PCW&R) is a private waste management company located in Compton, California, established in 2005. It is one of...
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    Compton, California (category Incorporated cities and towns in California)
    particular accusation involved the trash and recycling contract of the city to Pacific Coast Waste and Recycling LLC in 2007, whose leadership donated large...
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    Reducing plastic waste could support recycling and is often taken together with recycling: the "3R" refer to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The organization...
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    amount wasted and the most recycled. It has totaled that 2.2 million tons or 0.9 percent of MSW generated in 2015. While according to the Steel Recycling Institute...
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    "Paper Recycling Supplement -- World View". Recycling Today. Retrieved 2024-08-18. Taylor, Brian. "Paper Recycling Supplement--World View". Recycling Today...
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    storage of high-level waste, while re-use and transmutation are favored solutions for reducing the HLW inventory. Boundaries to recycling of spent nuclear...
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  • global waste trade is the international trade of waste between countries for further treatment, disposal, or recycling. Toxic or hazardous wastes are often...
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    The Great Pacific garbage patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific garbage patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the...
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    Ship graveyard (category Waste)
    ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where...
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    Gibsons (category Populated places on the British Columbia Coast)
    styrofoam recycling; founder Buddy Boyd was invited to address an international Zero Waste conference in Florianopolis, Brazil. The Sunshine Coast has seen...
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    and populated adjacent areas. Eventually, possibly following adaptation to the local conditions, the Pacific oyster spread up and down the coast and now...
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    Dumpster diving (category Waste collection)
    Sometimes waste may contain recyclable metals and materials that can be reused or sold to recycling plants and scrap yards. The most common recyclable metals...
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    for recycling. Initiatives like Healthy Seas are connecting environmental cleanup projects to manufacturers to re-use these materials. Recycled waste nets...
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    tonnes of waste were reported by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment. Some of this waste, mostly plastic and styrofoam washed up on the coasts of Canada...
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    (2002) California Proposition 65 (1986) Electronic Waste Recycling Act Electronic Waste Recycling Fee California Air Resources Board California Coastal...
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  • moisture-resistant coating for boxes that is 100% recyclable. Pacific has also implemented a waste reduction program that diverts more than 600,000 pounds...
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    (October 1, 2018). "Recycling of the rare earth elements". Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. Reuse and Recycling / UN SGDs: How can Sustainable...
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    USS Donaldson (DE-44) In 1990 the Navy authorized the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) to recycle nuclear-powered ships at PSNS. Approximately 25% of the shipyard's...
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    the forest, and making efficient recycling of dead trees especially important. This forest community includes coast Douglas-fir, Pacific madrone, tanoak...
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  • Plastic bag ban (category Waste minimisation)
    Plastics Recycling Update. 35 (11): 16–19. "Momentum for Plastic Bag Bans Spreading; Recycling Programs Earn Mixed Reviews". Solid Waste Report. 45...
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    in agriculture where the risks have not been managed" by 2035. Recycling Reusing Waste minimisation Mitigating Pollution prevention Compost Air pollution...
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    Red king crab (category Crustaceans of the eastern Pacific Ocean)
    waters in the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas, but also introduced to the Barents Sea. It grows to a leg span of 1.8 m (5.9 ft), and is heavily targeted...
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  • city of Seattle and EPA for its commitment to sustainability through pesticide-free grounds, a food waste compost facility, recycling, and energy conservation...
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    Tofino (category Populated places on the British Columbia Coast)
    solar power, recycling waste, composting, drinking rainwater, and eating locally grown or caught food. The climate is marine west coast (Köppen: Cfb,...
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    Microplastics (category Plastics and the environment)
    stronger infrastructure and investment around recycling. Some advocate for improving recycling technology to be able to recycle smaller plastics to reduce...
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    Mining (redirect from Mineral waste)
    recycling rates are dramatically stepped up these critical metals will become unavailable for use in modern technology.[citation needed] As recycling...
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    industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there...
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    recycling program. Not only are bins for recycling used across campus, but also the university has implemented programs to recycle non-consumer waste...
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    Brea, California (category Incorporated cities and towns in California)
    December 30, 2010. Orange County Waste & Recycling Department. "Olinda Landfill at Orange County Waste & Recycling Department". Archived from the original...
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  • for human use. downcycling – (waste management) recycling in which the quality of an item is diminished with each recycling. downstream – those processes...
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