Sentences with phrase «by landfills»

The project will use gas emitted by a landfill to fuel a nearby brick factory, reducing approximately 30,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution per year in the process.

Assessment and Impact of Leachate Generated by the Landfill City in Abidjan on the Quality of Ground Water and Surface Water (M'Badon Bay, Côte d'Ivoire)

May 17, 2012 Trash to energy: Oklahoma business fires bricks with landfill gas Methane produced by landfills is a powerful greenhouse gas.

A state senator lashed out Monday at the Department of Environmental Conservation for its failure to protect residents living by a landfill in Wheatfield that was recently declared a Superfund site.

Our Orion Assembly plant in Michigan, the home of the all - electric Chevrolet Bolt EV, is 54 percent powered by landfill gas.

Many cities are being negatively impacted by landfills and the overflow of trash which takes many years to decompose.

Their flushable liners and high - tech comfort fabrics makes them an increasingly attractive choice for many parents appalled by the landfill nightmare that currently manufactured diapers are.

BASC's response also included examples of biodiversity projects which were undertaken by or in partnership with people who shoot and funded or part - funded by landfill tax.

Scientists unaffiliated with the study said it shows better data is needed to fully understand the extent of the climate challenge posed by landfill methane emissions.

A more immediate problem for climate change is methane, which is released by landfills and melting permafrost and through farming practices.

By 1906, Ellis Island had grown to over 27 acres; it now included two new islands created by landfill.

Mindful of the land's varied histories, artists often developed projects in response to its mythical and geological pasts, as well as to traces of human presence evidenced by a landfill known as the Spoils Pile, a chemical disposal site, a quarry, vestiges of nineteenth - century railroads and bridges, a portage trail, and an ancient Native American burial ground.

In addition, we celebrate the launch of Pure Shores, the artist's recent comic book, published by Landfill Editions.

The truth is that most of the waste we generate is not considered recyclable by the public system, and is instead destined for linear disposal by landfill or incineration.

In our model we didn't include the methane emissions caused by landfilling our food because we couldn't get the data — and methane is 28 to 36 times more powerful in global warming potential than carbon dioxide.

Using biogas produced by landfills or wastewater treatment plants is one way to make renewable hydrogen.

Re-opening Babkirk as a secure landfill would have led to competition in the market for secure landfills in Northeastern BC, lowering tipping fees (the price charged by landfills) by about 10 %.

But despite growing awareness about the greenhouse gases emitted by landfills and the energy consumed in transporting garbage, the state's recycling rate has leveled off over the past decade and may have even dropped because of inconsistent programs from one community to the next, state officials said.

If you don't have the demand of a regular market the recycling paper still may end up in a landfill since it does not make economic sense to collect and store what you can not be assured of getting rid of other than by landfilling.

They also rarely factor in the emissions of the shipments to consumers, the emissions generated by consumers using the product, and the emissions generated by landfills or recycling plants that ultimately house the product.

Much of the methane produced by landfills is emitted into the atmosphere, and all of the liquids that seep out of the landfills has to be dealt with, and is a risk of polluting water sheds.