Sentences with phrase «chemical waste more»

For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and chemical waste more or less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.

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Uncorking the Chemical Potential of Wine Waste: Italian scientists have devised an innovative and economically feasible biorefinery that can squeeze more chemicals out of the mountains of grape waste produced during wine production...

Not only are they eco-friendly (chemical free, reusable, and less waste), they are also soft AND much more effective for cleaning your baby up.

Cloth diapers keep more trash (and human waste) out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.

A multi-pronged legislative package passed in honor of Earth Day aims to make New York State more environmentally friendly by banning the use of dangerous chemicals, setting clearer policies for disposing of hazardous waste and protecting New York's wetlands.

But chemical cues build up if lots of tadpoles are excreting waste into the water, and these make the tadpoles more competitive.

EPA has two dozen federal advisory committees that provide advice on air quality, pesticides, chemicals, environmental justice, drinking water safety, hazardous waste and more.

Polanyi says scientists are only beginning to understand how catalysis operates, and that the shift towards green chemistry makes knowing as much as possible about catalysts and how they reduce waste caused by chemical reactions more important than ever before.

Many other benefits have been claimed for biochar, including managing waste, storing carbon in the soil and being more environmentally friendly than adding synthetic chemicals to the soil.

«If you go back 10 years the focus was very much on the chemical manufacturing process: using greener solvents, reducing waste, making the process more selective,» says James Clark, director of the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the University of York.

Take the burping tanks: huge sealed stainless vessels holding 4 million litres or more, into which chemical and radioactive wastes were dumped indiscriminately by the contractors who ran Hanford.

Doing so in a more green way — reducing chemical waste during preparation — could reduce manufacturing costs and allow for larger - scale materials, she said.

Compared with coal - fired power plants, coal - to - chemicals factories capture CO2 from industrial waste more easily.

Some plastic wastes from vehicles can be easily reprocessed; however, PC and PUR materials require a more arduous chemical recycling method.

«If it was more expensive, waste would be reduced,» says chemical engineer Greg Keoleian, who co-directs the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

The new technique would also be more widely applicable than traditional chemical - based methods since it would depend less on the nuclear waste's chemical composition.

A similar chemical reaction stemming from the sloppy disposal of Los Alamos» nuclear waste in 2014 provoked the shutdown of a deep - underground storage site in New Mexico for more than two years, a DOE accident investigation concluded.

Materials chemistry, environmental chemistry; pyrolytic and chemical recycling of plastic wastes, utilization of biomass materials by thermal methods, research in environmental technologies, research on the more efficient utilization of solar energy, processing of hazardous wastes in thermal plasmas.

Every day we are also bombarded by chemicals from industry, waste incinerators, air travel, household cleaning products, building materials, cigarette smoke and way more.

P.S. Not to mention the extra water used to flush with... the more chemicals etc. used to treat the waste... etc. etc. ad infinitum...

A detox is a more targeted to remove an unwanted (and specific) waste product or substance from the body such as exposure to chemicals such as pesticides, overindulgence in alcohol, use of certain medications, etc..

Maybe that's why there's such higher diabetes risk, since more than 90 % of the persistent organic pollutants comes from animal foods — unless you work in a chemical factory, or stumble across some toxic waste.

The bookish retort that the e-readers take more energy to make, consume electricity, contain more chemicals, and create a greater waste problem when thrown away.

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste, as part of Enerkem's new... Read more →

New Zealand - based Lanzatech, the developer of gas fermentation technology for producing ethanol and high value chemicals (e.g.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to... Read more →

We continually cut trees, throwing garbage any where we want, chemical waste from different industries are thrown in the bodies of water, smoke coming from cars, factories and even at home are not properly handled, there's still a lot of problems that we can address to each and every one but if we will not move or take any action in response to this issue our planet would die little by little, as we see earth today is now showing to us the damage we had made such as earth quake, landslide, acid rain, global warming and a lot more.

Key areas of focus include getting more waste to treatment, and improving treatment effectiveness where needed; improving the testing to target hormonally active substances in waste waters; and agricultural and chemical policy reform.

And that packaging represents wasted resources such as petrochemicals, trees, chemicals, water as well as transport emissions — the heavier the product, the more greenhouse gas emissions emitted.

The Story of Broke, released on November 8, 2011, calls for a shift in government spending toward investments in clean, green solutions — renewable energy, safer chemicals and materials, zero waste and more — that can deliver jobs and a healthier environment.

He's either going to repair the car, using paint and chemicals, creating waste, or scrap it and buy something else, causing even more waste.