Already Finnish nuclear utility Posiva is test-drilling the rock beneath Olkiluoto island with the idea of interring waste one-third of a mile down.
Although illegal dumping of waste is one of the most visible of crimes, relatively few cases come before the courts.
There would also be legal hurdles to overcome as reprocessing nuclear waste is one of the most regulated industries in America.
"Too much is at stake to waste even one more minute - the last train is leaving the station, " Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said.
Plastic waste is one of the worst forms of trash because it takes so long to degrade, thus overflowing our landfills and polluting our oceans and waterways.
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There are many areas of overlap between biomimicry and "cradle-to-cradle" particularly in the way that ecosystems present a great model of closed loop systems in which any waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else.
But Robert Bullard, who heads the Environmental Justice Resource Centre at Clark Atlanta University, sees the shipment of waste from one county to a poorer, blacker one as part of a longstanding pattern that sees minority communities disproportionately burdened with hazards.
But there is so much waste from operations like this one that sometimes waste makes its way into streams and pollutes the water.
Waste heat from one appliance like the fridge might be captured and fed into an oven or dishwasher.
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It also hands out two food waste caddies - one for putting food scraps in for the kitchen and another for kerbside collection.
Constable Simon Crowcroft said if all the other branches of waste disposal were bunched together there, it would mean all waste going to one site.
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Cash equivalents have become increasingly popular, but gift cards too involve waste: In one recent year, Consumer Reports said 27 percent of these went unredeemed.
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The high levels of waste are just one of the many reasons food is increasingly becoming an obsession with investors, scientists, policy makers and entrepreneurs.
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About half of the local authorities in the UK currently operate so-called "alternate week collections", whereby recyclable waste is removed one week, and black bag rubbish the next.
Poor waste management practices is one of the first steps on the road to ruin for most cities.
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Now she can fit all the plastic waste she generates in one year into a small Ziploc-size bag.
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An environmental campaigner, considered to be the driving force behind Italy's zero-waste movement, is one of the winners of the 2013 Goldman Prize.
Right now, your correspondent wouldn't waste his money on one.
His family said they had watched him waste away while no-one took any action.
Knowledge on e-waste can be seen as one the important steps towards sustainable development.
Romney defended his record as governor of Massachusetts as one of cutting waste and trimming the budget.
High levels of waste and inefficiency is actually one of the driving forces of the entire greentech industry.
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Third, it is hard to imagine a more environmentally damaging waste management system than the one we have in New York City.
However, since the UK will most likely adopt a single reactor system for all its new nuclear power plants, there will only be one type of waste stream.
Standing among bales of crushed plastic bottles and piles of books waiting to be recycled, Lau says that one kilogram of waste paper would have gotten about 18 cents this time last year.
His portfolio nowadays is an oddball collection that includes Casella Waste Systems, trading below one times revenue as earnings recover from two quarters of losses earlier this year, and GameStop, whose shares have rallied on rising sales and an expanding store network.
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