Sentences with phrase «agricultural waste into»

Biochar is a 2,000 - year - old practice that converts agricultural waste into a soil enhancer that can hold carbon, boost food security and discourage deforestation.

This 2,000 year - old practice converts agricultural waste into a soil enhancer that can hold carbon, boost food security, and increase soil biodiversity, and discourage deforestation.

ConocoPhillips teamed up with Tyson Foods, Inc., of Arkansas in 2007 to convert waste fat from livestock animals and agricultural waste into conventional diesel fuel.

Iogen Corporation has furthered this technology by developing enzymes to convert tough, sugar - bearing cellulose in inexpensively produced agricultural waste into ethanol (opposite page, top).

Not exact matches

«Eben came into the class with a sample of agricultural waste and mushroom cells and asked me what I thought,» he recalls.

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.

Black carbon aerosols — particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural waste, and fossil fuels are burned in an incomplete way — are important for understanding climate change, as they absorb sunlight, leading to higher atmospheric temperatures, and can also coat Arctic snow with a darker layer, reducing its reflectivity and leading to increased melting.

The Earth Island Institute, among other groups concerned about forest loss due to paper consumption, would instead like to see more research into using agricultural waste to make paper instead of wood pulp or bamboo.

The water quality at our beaches is threatened by pollution from urban and agricultural runoff, sewage spills and overflows, and waste discharged into the ocean by industry, sewage treatment plants and power plants.

An increasingly popular solution that solves both problems is a process that turns organic waste, such as food scraps and agricultural waste, into fuel.

She worked extensively in climate, energy, fuels, waste, and agricultural policy and has deep experience both in translating scientific and technical work into policy ideas and creating strategic partnerships to achieve those policies.

These «biorefineries» will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high - content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose in municipal solid wastes into ethanol.

Agricultural pesticide and industrial waste runoff from the Mississippi River spews into the Gulf constantly, creating a dead zone in which no seafood can survive.

In a new study, researchers took a closer look and estimate that with the energy that goes into the agricultural production, transportation, processing, food sales, storage and preparation for the food we waste equates to about 2 % of annual energy consumption in the US.

And we wouldn't have to worry about running out of plumage: About five million tonnes of the agricultural waste product are rendered into stock feed or buried in landfills every year.

These «biorefineries» will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high - content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose in municipal solid wastes into valuable and renewable end products.