Since picking up Gordon Brown or Barack Obama on a two - seated bicycle probably isn't the most logical (or safe) route to go, Denmark has developed a more reasonable solution: limos powered
by plant waste.
Not exact matches
Monadelphous Group and AnaeCo's long - delayed
waste treatment
plant in Shenton Park has finally been given a completion date, with a short list of tasks to be finished
by mid-April.
The
plant owned
by Quebec company Enerkem is believed to be the world's first full - scale
waste - to - biofuels facility.
From the collection and packaging of
waste materials and management of satellite accumulation areas, to complete in -
plant cleaning or running your RCRA treatment processes — Clean Harbors on - site staffs are solely dedicated to servicing your site
by leveraging all of our capabilities and developing the safest and most cost - effective solutions for our customers.
This means that less than 1 % of the total
waste generated
by the
plant is used in landfill.
Sustainable Solutions for Wine
Waste Ways to recycle the vast amount of
plant waste produced
by the wine industry are under investigation
by chemistry and biotechnology researchers at Swinburne...
The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial
waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and
waste that has to be handled
by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.
Results achieved over hundreds of
plants globally have achieved removal of organic
waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the
plants installed
by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic
waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.
The
waste water treatment and green energy
plant at the $ 120 million Pacific Beverages» Bluetongue Brewery in NSW also provides valuable renewable energy for the brewery, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs
by 15 per cent.
Biogas produced from Remo - Frit's
waste streams undergoes sweetening (sulphur removal) for environmental and
plant reliability purposes, using GWE's BIO-SULFURIX ™ process, followed
by drying in GWE's GASODRIX ™ system.
A: Achieving our
waste goals is through a variety of efforts at all our
plants, many driven
by our employee GoGreen Teams.
In late 2016, we set a new 2020 goal to reduce total
waste generated
by our
plants.
Following the unveiling of its # 5.4 million anaerobic digestion
plant in 2015, Stowmarket - based Muntons has further improved its environmental credentials
by achieving zero
waste to landfill.
The Anaerobic Digestion
Plant uses natural biological processes to both reduce output in distillery
waste water
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Alternative protein sources may include the use of
by - products currently viewed as
waste or the development of new protein sources from
plants, lower order animals, or single - cell organisms with a lower environmental impact compared with typical animal - based protein sources.
In 2009, Casa Herradura installed a
waste - to - energy process that fuels a steam boiler with biogas generated
by a biological anaerobic reactor, as part of the wastewater treatment
plant (WWTP).
Callum Hudson - Odoi
planted a shot onto the post, via the hand of goalkeeper Justin Bijlow, after Castillo had lost possession, and the Dutchman then himself
wasted a fine counter-attack with an indecisive pass when flanked
by Hudson - Odoi and Redan.
Get dirty
by collecting weeds, leaves, dying
plants and some kitchen
waste like veggies, fruits and coffee grinds.
«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted
by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal
wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage,
planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal
wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal
wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted
by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;
The hearing came the same day as the E.P.A. proposed adding the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics
plant — identified
by the state as the source of the PFOA — to the federal Superfund list, reserved for the nation's worst hazardous
waste sites.
It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power
plants, fracking
waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns
by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.
ALLEGANY TERRITORY, Salamanca, NY July 5, 2013 - SCMC, LLC, a construction management firm wholly - owned
by the Seneca Nation of Indians, was recently awarded a $ 2.7 million contract with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to upgrade a
waste water treatment
plant on its premises.
This was further worsened
by the direct discharge of liquid
waste from Accra's sewerage system into the Korle lagoon after the Mudor treatment
plant broke down.
He robs half a billion dollars from an environmental fund that is used to clean up water, to safeguard and strengthen our
waste water treatment
plants, and he was rebuked
by the federal government, who said it was the first time that's ever been requested and it was disallowed.»
SCMC, LLC, a construction management firm wholly - owned
by the Seneca Nation of Indians, was recently awarded a $ 2.7 million contract with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to upgrade a
waste water treatment
plant on its premises.
The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of
waste heat produced
by a nearby landfill gas power
plant.
The land was polluted in the early 1900s
by waste from the Solvay Process Co.'s soda ash production and later
by a concrete batch
plant and a metals scrap yard, as well as leaks from large oil storage tanks.
The new technique should help pesticides adhere to the leaves of
plants and reduce pesticide
waste and pollution
by almost half.
One approach that is gaining currency among environmental scientists is carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a form of carbon sequestration in which CO2 is removed from the
waste gas of power
plants, typically
by absorbing it in a liquid, and subsequently burying it deep underground, hence keeping the gas out of the atmosphere.
Among the surprising conclusions: the
waste produced
by coal
plants is actually more radioactive than that generated
by their nuclear counterparts.
The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a
by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal
waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear
waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted
by a power
plant — a
by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power
plant producing the same amount of energy.»
By 1999 he had lined up investors, hired an engineering staff, and had a pilot
plant chewing through seven tons of
waste daily in a Philadelphia industrial yard.
The extra electricity, which can increase
by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power
plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is
wasted.
Once harvested, these crops would get ferried
by truck or train to power
plants and other industrial facilities where, along with
waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.
So confident were we in the seas» seemingly limitless capacity to absorb our gaseous
waste that,
by the turn of the millennium, the United States, Germany, and Japan were actually proposing to compress CO2 from power
plants into a gooey liquid and pipe it directly into the abyss.
The scientists, led
by agronomist Kenneth Cassman of the University of Nebraska and Shaobing Peng of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, believe hotter nights may speed up respiration, causing the
plant to work harder and
waste energy.
The researchers propose recycling the
waste by - products from seafood processing
plants as feed for farm - raised fish.
One promising solution is to recycle the
waste by - products (such as heads and innards) made
by Chinese seafood processing
plants.
So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional
plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example,
by using the
waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).
In a new article, researchers from Aarhus University describe how the
waste left
by ants on
plant leaves serves as a valuable fertiliser for the
plants — handed on a silver platter.
The coal
waste contains chemical elements that can be ionised
by the biofertiliser, making nutrients which are essential to growth available for uptake
by the
plants.
At an industrial scale, compost, such as manure, is produced
by mixing
plant and animal
waste.
Then, the volume flow in the
plant can be doubled, utilization of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100 %, and a large amount of usable
waste heat will be produced
by the catalyst (PtG operation).
The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power
plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved
by other
waste - burning
plants and as good as an oil - fired
plant.
That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial
waste is carbon dioxide;
by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power
plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.
Norway and Sweden are worried about the threat posed
by radioactive leaks from sunken nuclear - powered submarines and nuclear
waste off the Kola Peninsula, as well as the safety of the nuclear
plants there.
The
plant, which will be working
by 1994, is designed to handle 20 000 tonnes of
waste per year.
A new study shows that human
waste accounts for a high percentage of nutrients consumed
by some animals and
plants in suburban ponds.
Unlike the
waste from conventional nuclear power
plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the
by - products of fusion decay within decades.
It centres on a computer model they developed to compare the carbon emissions that would be saved
by converting the world's available supplies of
plant waste into either biofuel or biochar.