Sentences with word «biodegrade»

«Stemming the Tide of Plastic Marine Litter: A Global Action Agenda,» the Emmett Center's most recent Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Brief, documents the devastating effects of plastic marine litter, detailing how plastic forms a large portion of our waste stream and typically does not biodegrade in marine environments.

Since the 1950s the fishing industry has replaced natural fibres such as cotton, jute and hemp with synthetic plastic materials such as nylon, polyethylene and polypropylene which doesn't biodegrade in water.

Used clumping clay cat litter NEVER biodegrades in the landfill.

The debris, originating from the shores of Asia and the Americas, once naturally biodegraded at sea.

The urns and pods from Paw Pods are all made from bamboo powder, rice husk, and corn starch, and are designed to be decorated with paint, markers, or other craft items as a way for grieving kids and adults to express their feelings through art, and then after burial, to fully biodegrade within 3 to 5 years.

Of course I know that plastic doesn't biodegrade quickly (ever?).

Some in fact, do not biodegrade at all.

And it's a big problem — landfilled textiles can leach chemicals into the groundwater, release the potent climate change gas methane, and never fully biodegrade, especially if they are synthetic fibers, which are essentially plastic filaments made from oil.

Bio liners are made of a non woven material with no binder, and will biodegrade very quickly (within 8 days in a sewage treatment system or 20 days in a septic tank)

Concerned about toxicity to aquatic organisms and the fact some do not biodegrade easily, the European Union has restricted the industrial use of some of these chemicals but there are no rules on the sales of textiles containing their residues.

Optical brighteners do not readily biodegrade.

If you use flats or prefolds, you can boil them, but it's easier to do a bleach soak (bleach biodegrades into salt and water so it really isn't terrible — I bleached my daughter's diapers when she had a stomach bug and they are still fine).

One should also understand that massive tree farming has very little impact for storing carbon dioxide as trees will in a few years started sloughing off leaves, flower parts, fruit parts, and broken branches to get biodegraded reemitting the carbon dioxide.

When companies marketed «biodegradable» plastic garbage bags despite the fact that nothing really biodegrades well in landfills, who trashed those claims?

Despite the fact that the material would naturally biodegrade by itself, the students designed it to self - destruct.

An added bonus is that the poop biodegrades much faster than when the dog is eating commercial food!

Today, the company is excited to announce the addition of «Carrington Organic Teas» to the existing roster of high quality health foods, launching the first - ever tea to feature 100 % eco-friendly packaging that will fully and safely biodegrade when composted.

Hybrid diapers, like gDiapers, have removable inserts that can safely biodegrade when flushed.

Earth Rated claims that their poop bags completely biodegrade within 24 months.

Generally speaking, it's easier to recycle cardboard than plastic, plus paper products tend to biodegrade more easily without adding a lot of weight to the product the way glass or aluminum can.

The company also uses 100 % degradable mailers, which they are trial running to see if they actually biodegrade within 12 months of sunlight exposure as claimed.

For the third time, the courts have rejected the argument that because landfill site operators convert methane (a bi-product of biodegrading waste), into -LSB-...]

Biogas is produced when organic matter biodegrades under anaerobic conditions (that is, in the absence of oxygen).

Because they are made from natural bamboo, these Eco-friendly diapers biodegrade right back into the environment when they are thrown away!

In that comment, the process of pyrolyzing those wastes is outlined to reduce some useless reemission of carbon dioxide occurring as those wastes biodegrade, and stopping the pollution of water from the dumping of those wastes containing germs, toxics and drugs.

Most plastic never really biodegrades — it remains in our environment for hundreds of years.

They don't biodegrade for hundreds of years.

The polymer scaffolding itself simply biodegrades after several months.

By using a cotton and hemp blend, you can have a very durable, washable bag that will grow softer with use and eventually biodegrade once it reaches end of life.

«While each type of natural litter biodegrades at its own pace, clay litters will never decompose,» says Mark Hughes, co-founder of Swheat Scoop.

In the March 31 dotearth posting Gore's ad campaign, an exercise in futilety, my comment 14 pointed to using pyrolysis on our organic wastes that are dumped to biodegrade reemitting GHGs that nature had so kindly trapped for us.

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In the ocean, sun and waves break down most plastics into small microparticles, which never truly biodegrade.

The chemical does not bioaccumulate and biodegrades rapidly in sewage treatment plants, and therefore can be commonly found in cleaners advertised as «green».

The Cartridge Cases biodegrade in less than 10 years.

It amazes me that JERRYD and GERM KILLER have no understanding of what happens with the massive ever - expanding messes of organic wastes and sewage that we allow to undergo natural biodegrading to be reemitting trapped carbon dioxide and some other GHGs.

It's friendly to the environment and following disposal, both the TPU laminate and the polyester fabric biodegrade within approximately 5 years.

During my research I learned that it takes 500 years to biodegrade disposable diapers.

There's lots of research going on to bio-degrade plastics (one kid figured out how to quickly biodegrade plastic makolet shopping bags).

No disposable diaper has ever biodegraded.

And those trays are just the start of a river of trash from school meals that ends up in landfills, including nacho - stained containers, half - empty milk cartons, plastic cookie wrappers and plastic tubs that will sit in thick polyethylene bags for centuries without biodegrading.

The benzene and toluene likely would have become biodegraded within weeks.

Just as important, upon completing their mission these nanoassassins would biodegrade harmlessly within the body.

At the site of the injection, the MSRs biodegrade and dissolve naturally within a few months.

Mihai Leonte, a PhD candidate in Kessler's research group, observed this process — in which microbes aggressively biodegrade methane as methane emissions increase — in a paper published last year.

You can greatly reduce your footprint by choosing reusable menstrual cups, cloth pads, and sea sponge tampons, or simply by switching to products made from natural and organic fibers which biodegrade.

While paper and wood products biodegrade at a moderately fast pace, plastics and other synthetic materials are notorious for being slow to break down.

Additionally, we have buried used Almost Invisible Cat litter in our own backyard rose garden and determined that those samples biodegraded in 6 — 9 months.