Sentences with phrase «many municipal waste»

It describes a city investing in energy and resource effectiveness, with falling water consumption and only two per cent of municipal waste going to landfill in 2010.

Enerkem is to handle operations and the city is to supply 100,000 tonnes annually of sorted municipal waste that can not be composted or recycled.

Wales could be set to target an 80 per cent municipal waste recycling rate by 2035, according to Welsh Minister for Environment Hannah Blythyn at the CIWM Resource Conference Cymru yesterday (14 March).

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Another municipal waste - to - energy project — using technology available in Australasia — is designed to convert more than 65,000 tons of mixed organic waste a year into environmentally harmonious green energy and dry fertilizer.

Currently, packaging produced by ABA members represents about 1.7 percent of all municipal waste generated each year.

EU Parliament votes in favor of waste legislation package; 2030 recycling targets set at 60 % for municipal waste and 70 % for packaging; manufacturers to make information on SVHC content in products available to public

The Samsons got a flyer about an incentive program for purchasing cloth diapers from their municipal waste agency.

Disposable diapers may make up only 1 % of the municipal waste stream, but, most of the harm disposable diapers do to the environment is actually in their production — not disposal.

not to defend them, but disposables compromise only 1 % of the municipal waste stream.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

My assumption is that the mafia plays a decisive role in determining the destination of collected municipal waste in order to gain profit from illegal disposal, and that, by doing so, it behaves as a (bad) alternative provider of a public service.

The facility would burn 2,600 tons of solid municipal waste brought in by truck and or rail each day, and produce what proponents call «clean electricity.»

«This is about the relationship between a father and his son,» Mr. Conniff argued, claiming that a municipal waste treatment start - up and a medical malpractice insurance firm hired his client because of his name recognition and ties to Long Island elected officials.

Andreassen and others anticipate that a large chunk of the world's agricultural, industrial, and municipal waste may someday go into thermal depolymerization machines scattered all over the globe.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

And Los Angeles County short - listed its technology for a municipal waste - processing plant the county hopes to build.

In this way, their procedure, if expanded to commercial scale, could alleviate stress on municipal waste infrastructures at the same time as producing commercially viable materials that do not constrain food supplies.

The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $ 786 million into new ways to convert corn, wood, grass, and municipal waste into fuel for America's cars.

After a four - year experiment with two comparable 533 - tonne samples of municipal waste, the leachate from the wet cell contained dissolved organic particles from food, leaves and garden debris totalling 2700 milligrams per litre.

Many municipal waste facilities and some vendors accept fluorescents; the EPA and Earth 911 maintain online directories of collection sites.

That cellulose could come from a native plant like switchgrass, or even from municipal waste.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

Unwanted cell phones, televisions, PCs (including desktops, laptops, portables and computer monitors), computer peripherals (including printers, scanners and fax machines), computer mouses and keyboards amounted to more than 1.9 million tons of solid municipal waste in the U.S.; of that, more than 1.5 million tons were dumped primarily into landfills, whereas the rest was recycled, the EPA says.

«Our principal findings provide a more accurate estimate of municipal waste disposal in the United States compared to previous estimates,» study co-author Jon T. Powell, a Yale doctoral student, said.

To help increase fuel availability, British Airways announced a partnership earlier this year to create a new jet fuel from municipal waste (ClimateWire, April 25).

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

Treatment and reuse options are needed for municipal waste.

It's a common process for reducing municipal waste on Earth.

So the whole idea behind this is that in our industrial society, we've got coal burning plants, we've got municipal waste combustors.

In addition, while toxicity has occurred from contaminated water getting into the food supply, human exposure to environmental cadmium is primarily the result of the burning of fossil fuels and municipal wastes.

In the municipal waste stream, plastic and Styrofoam comprise about 19 % of the volume, and therefore 19 % of the cost of national solid waste management.

Thawing permafrost may also contaminate freshwater resources when previously frozen industrial and municipal waste is released.

The laws that have been most effective such as the Clean Water Act for municipal waste treatment, have a carrot, low interest loans to build an better treatment plant, or fines if you did not.

Of this, about 45 % was from wood and wood - derived biomass, 44 % from biofuels (mainly ethanol), and about 11 % from municipal waste.

The 2006 Waste Characterization Study identifies the major constituents in the municipal waste stream.

16 control options are discussed that cover the wide range of sources of black carbon and methane emissions from cook stoves and diesel engines through to leaky gas distribution pipes and municipal waste.

It just does not make sense to take our biomass, our municipal waste, and bury it in a landfill where it will emit greenhouse gases for the next 100 years.»

The best answer may be biomass: woody waste and — in slightly trickier forms — cow manure and even municipal waste that could power and heat entire towns in the United States.

In late 2013, GM joined with Detroit Renewable Energy to announce a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from the metropolitan Detroit area into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of Detroit - Hamtramck assembly plant, home of the Chevrolet Volt.

Wood and municipal waste provide 1.3 %, and conventional hydroelectric 6 % (but large hydroelectric power is generally excluded from RPS calculations).

Municipal Waste: Municipal waste energy comprises wastes produced by the residential, commercial and public services sectors and incinerated in specific installations to produce heat and / or power.

Have you any idea of the cost of getting water to desert areas (sea water or municipal waste water)?

Our renewable energy team has extensive knowledge in biomass power facilities, including woody biomass boiler - fired and gasification plants, municipal waste - to - energy plants, biofuels plants, anaerobic digestion plants, biomass pelletization or torrefaction plants, and coal - to - biomass conversion facilities.

Have you any idea of the cost of flooding desert areas with sea water or municipal waste water?

Just over 13 percent of global energy is derived from renewable sources, 10.6 percent of which from combustible renewables and renewable municipal waste.

«I look forward to working with Tropical Power, Kenya Power and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to see how we can develop more biogas projects for organic and municipal waste in the county.»

When prompted to consider water pollution, most people envision classic point sources; the corroded factory pipe, the municipal waste treatment plant, the oil behemoth's offshore well.

With secondary processes like using waste heat to dry municipal waste (sterilize) prior to recycling you have increased the efficiency of both processes.

Black water is wastewater from toilets, which has come into contact with fecal matter and therefore must be disposed of properly through a septic or municipal waste system.