EARTH

Earth

• Some believe British invented landfills in the 1920s. Drive to build them was public health.
  By 1945, about 100 American cities had “sanitary” landfills. Within 15 years, that number increased to about 1,400.
• The design of landfills includes plastic liners and other materials like clay to prevent groundwater contamination. Monitoring is required to determine if there is any groundwater contamination.
• Daily operation of landfills includes compacting (crushing) and covering waste with several inches of soil or other cover material to reduce odor and litter as well as control rodents and pests. Closed landfills must have a final cover that includes a synthetic cap and a soil layer.

Organic Recycling:

• Activities that collect, process, and use organic waste derived materials.
• Reduces what we send to landfill and reclaim resources that are part of our daily lives
• Most everyone is familiar with backyard compost or worm bin and yard debris collection. But the materials that can potentially be collected in the urban environment also include storm debris, food waste, biosolids, and residues from food or other manufacturing processes

Brownfields/Bioremediation:

• With certain legal exclusions and additions, the term "brownfield site" means real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
• Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties protects the environment, reduces blight, and takes development pressures off greenspaces and working lands.
• EPA's Brownfields Program is designed to empower states, communities, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields.
• Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties increases local tax bases, facilitates job growth, utilizes existing infrastructure, takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and both improves and protects the environment.
• Bioremeadiation- "Remediate" means to solve a problem, and "bio-remediate" means to use biological organisms to solve an environmental problem such as contaminated soil or groundwater.
  
  

Soil/Nutrients

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-Addition/integration of pervious surfaces

-Zero brownfields/hazardous sites (accomplished via bioremediation)

           

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Waste

GOALS

-Zero waste (accomplished via reducing trash, reusing products, and composting or recycle the rest)

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Products/Materials

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-Integrate cradle-to-cradle (utilize life-cycle assessments)

-Boost local economy

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