Sentences with phrase «agricultural waste material»

It would be a completely tree - free print magazine published in large volumes, made from an agricultural waste material and recycled fibres using a process that consumed less energy and water.

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Luckily, research is showing promising sources of both new and valuable products in food, animal, horticultural and other agricultural materials, co-products and waste streams.

Materials derived primarily from renewable sources such as replenishable agricultural feed stocks, animal sources, marine food processing industry wastes, or microbial sources, and can break down to produce environmentally friendly products such as carbon dioxide, water, and quality compost.

We recycle the majority of our manufacturing waste, and many of the waste by - products from our agricultural raw materials are used as animal feed or fertilizers.

USDA's Agricultural Research Service continues to conduct, often in collaboration with industry and academic partners, research on new technologies for reducing spoilage of fresh foods and the development of new products from waste materials at food processing facilities.

USDA's Agricultural Research Service supports innovation by conducting, often in collaboration with industry and academic partners, research on new technologies for reducing spoilage of fresh foods and the development of new products from waste materials at food processing facilities.

As new materials are produced and applied in the agricultural and industrial sectors, the types of contaminants expelled as sewage and waste water are also becoming diverse.

O'Connell said that Dell is also using packaging materials recycled from agricultural waste, such as wheat straw, in its efforts to accelerate innovation - goals echoed by the AAAS Research Competitiveness Program and advanced through its involvement in award programs like the Catalyst Award.

Novem calculates that if some 0.5 million hectares of agricultural land were turned over to production of such biomass sources of energy, this would meet around 5 per cent of Dutch energy requirements; this would increase to 12 per cent if waste and refuse materials were used as biomass.

One particularly fascinating material was the particle board made from agricultural waste designed by Charles Job of Bern University of Applied Arts in collaboration with Ahmadu Bello University, the University of Nigeria and Patrick Kaiser.

In the future, Ingeo ™ will be made from cellulosic raw materials, agricultural wastes and non-food plants.

But perhaps someday soon, your new Ford vehicle may include some of this agricultural waste in the form of bioplastic, which is a less harmful material than petroleum - based plastics.

One of the more successful rural energy development strategies is the use of biogas digesters, which involves a process whereby organic material such as agricultural or animal waste are broken down by specific types of bacteria by anaerobic digestion, releasing carbon dioxide and methane gas.

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.

The waste feedstocks for the process will most likely come from a mixture of sources ranging from food scraps and other household material such as grass and tree cuttings, to agricultural and industrial waste.

Mechanical, single - stage filters, employing commonly available materials such as sand, activated charcoal, clay, peat, straw, or other agricultural waste, can be designed to effectively remove large particles and some larger bacteria and parasitic organisms.

Equally important will be the agricultural inputs and waste products, water consumption, land requirements, transportation of raw materials to processing centers, and processing plant effluents and emissions, for example.

Rather, Lehmann says, biochar should be sourced from the massive amount of waste materials that normal agricultural and forestry production methods leave behind: corn stalks, rice husks, tree trimmings, and the like.

This approach can be extended to a complete industrial ecosystem, e.g. recycling «waste» outputs from industrial and agricultural processes as feedstock or energy inputs for other industries and users - cascading and integrating to increase overall materials and energy efficiency, and, where possible topping up with renewables to drive the system.

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.

Why it's noteworthy: Because the material is renewable and it helps create a new use for agricultural waste, it's environmentally friendly on two accounts.