landfill-bound

The leather upper parts are made from old, landfill-bound check book wallets, and the soles from used car tires.

Alexandra Kain | Inhabitat 2009

One can no longer be oblivious to the mediocre quality of fruits and vegetables, the costly trucking of fresh produce, or the senseless, landfill-bound packaging involved.

Abigail Doan | Inhabitat 2009

All and all, these cardboard toilet paper tubes account for 160 million pounds of landfill-bound trash.

Scott's Tube-Free TP Matt Hickman 2010

All and all, these cardboard toilet paper tubes account for 160 million pounds of landfill-bound trash.

Scott's Tube-Free TP Matt Hickman 2010

One can no longer be oblivious to the mediocre quality of fruits and vegetables, the costly trucking of fresh produce, or the senseless, landfill-bound packaging involved.

Sharecropper: NYC’s Micro-Farming Public Art Project | Inhabitat 2009

By grinding up landfill-bound plastic and mixing it with portland cement, Miller was able to create a material just as strong as traditional concrete made with mined aggregate.

Trey Farmer | Inhabitat 2010

Nate and Kristen shared some of what worked well (recycling durable but landfill-bound billboard ads as covers for mobile pens, white side up to keep the birds cool).

Leslie Hatfield: Starting Farming on the Cheap: An Interview with Two Young Farmers 2009

And don't even get me started on aluminum screw caps (recyclable in Los Angeles, but still met with gasps from my oenophile friends) or landfill-bound plastic and rubber stoppers, which require the strength of two men to remove from a bottle.

Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Can I Recycle Wine Corks? 2009

Among the materials RecycleMatch helps businesses take out of the landfill-bound waste stream are: "commodity recyclables" including paper, steel, plastic and glass; wastewater; consumer electronics and business equipment a.k.a. e-waste; and food waste.

TechCrunch Lora Kolodny 2011

Thrift Recycling Management has been collecting and re-purposing landfill-bound books for years.

The New Yorker Elizabeth Minkel 2011