tonnage

The sheer tonnage of story and character we were able to pack into “Discovery” every episode was kind of incredible.

Ten years after California passed landmark legislation to reduce plastic bag use, the tonnage of discarded bags has skyrocketed.

"We don't want this to be a recurrent issue. We don't want to drop transits or tonnage," she says.

Although, even in the weeks before and after, increased tonnages are visible at both the company’s recycling and compost facilities.

As policymakers wrestle with this dilemma, residents who live near the two landfills have asked sanitation agencies to explore diverting some tonnage elsewhere.