Sentences with phrase «commercial waste from»

This place is also the endpoint of flows of industrial and commercial waste from across the Pacific Ocean: glass bottles, lightbulbs, hard hats, stones, etc..

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Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

These include consumer education, investment in waste treatment infrastructure, waste diversion from the retail and commercial sector, food collection for redistribution, and research into high value uses for food waste.

Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia have piloted programs to turn food waste from commercial kitchens into compost or fertiliser.

Septic Waste from residential and commercial system is also treated at this facility, drawn from about 220 waste water systems on the island, 25 of which are commercial operations.

This session will focus on building successful partnerships to help establish collection from commercial and institutional food waste generators.

That's 30,000 tonnes of waste that could be diverted from landfill and recycled as compost if the government had the will and foresight to introduce a commercial composting facility.

Start - ups could use the flood of small, cheap satellites heading into orbit for everything from commercial data gathering to mining the waste in landfills

This is the first commercial biorefinery in the world that can make oil from a variety of waste streams.»

U.S. low - level waste comes from a wide range of places, including hospitals and laboratories, but the greatest — and most toxic — volume is produced by the Energy Department and the 104 commercial nuclear reactors.

We hope to offer the product as a commercial capture agent for separating CO2 from chemical or power station waste streams.»

Even if fuels from agricultural waste, wood, grasses and household trash are the greenest transportation option available, manufacturers have yet to produce them with any commercial success.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

Moreover, publishers point out that a commercial electronic archive, managed by HighWirePress and including nearly 250 journals from many scientific disciplines, already exists and that government money is wasted.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

«Our research makes it possible to produce fermentable sugars from this huge amount of waste in a cost - effective way to increase its commercial value,» says one of the lead researchers, Jin Chuan Wu, from the A * STAR Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences.

Ramos» neighborhood is part of the Parker Street hazardous waste site, approximately 114 acres that include two schools, homes and commercial properties built atop fill contaminated with PCBs from an old municipal burn dump.

«The main reason is that in commercial sandwiches you have longer refrigeration chains, plus packaging, and waste tends to be higher from bought sandwiches,» says Azapagic.

Cellulosic's slow path to commercial use Two weeks ago, INEOS Bio announced it had begun commercial production of cellulosic ethanol from yard waste in its Vero Beach, Fla., plant.

In 2006 CATF supported an evaluation on biochar research gaps and co-founded the International Biochar Initiative (IBI), which seeks to develop practical demonstrations and commercial development for capturing and storing carbon from a wide range of feedstocks, including wastes and manures.

Until it was recovered from the waste products of soybean processing in the 1930s, egg yolk was the primary source of commercial lecithin.

Commercial kitchens, such as the one associated with The Commons at Gutman Library are typically associated with energy intensive equipment; however, the project team incorporated many energy efficient design elements into the project, such as the capture and reuse of waste heat from the refrigeration equipment to pre ‐ heat the air supplied to the space.

And in Los Angeles, the ground service equipment for eight airlines will now be fueled with renewable diesel — made from grass clippings and other organic waste — because of the FAA's Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative.

Even if you're not a gardener, you can purchase their main diet staple, grass hay, along with other vegetables, from local farmers, again diminishing carbon emissions, chemicals, and other waste products that result from shipping commercial food.

It's unfortunate but true that large - scale commercial breeders and brokers typically confine dogs for their entire lives in tiny, stacked, wire - floored cages, waste falling on them from above, their paws injured by the wire threads, and the female dogs bred continuously to exhaustion.»

Karel Minor, executive director with the Humane Society of Berks County, said «Major commercial kennels can range from mere licensing violations... to being true hellscapes with dozens or hundreds of animals living in their own waste, air which is unbreathable, animals so uncared for they are nearly unrecognizable masses of hair and filth, and clear violations of PA cruelty law.

The artist began his meticulous study by picking each weed from the city streets — obscure bits of nature found amidst commercial waste (discarded candy wrappers, cigarette butts and soda cans).

Run on waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to grow veggies.

A simple way to drastically reduce your waste is by switching from commercial toiletries and makeup to DIY options.

How CHP works is by using the heat that would otherwise be wasted in exhaust gases from fossil combustion systems, such as flue gases from a coal - or biomass - fueled boiler or exhaust from a gas turbine or reciprocating engine, to produce steam and / or hot water for various industrial or commercial needs.

KiOR's biorefinery in Columbus, Mississippi started commercial production in March using wood chips to produce cellulosic fuels, and Ineos just announced on July 31 that their Indian River BioEnergy plant in Florida has begun operations to make biofuels from plant waste.

With a new federal nuclear waste program necessary and on the long - term horizon, the Natural Resources Defense Council sought to learn what state officials think should be done with the spent fuel and radioactive waste from America's 99 commercial nuclear reactors.

A classic example is the first commercial biorefinery in the world Changing World Technologies which make oil from a variety of waste streams.

United Airlines last week began powering some of its Los Angeles flights with biofuel made from waste fats and inedible oils, the first carrier to power its regular commercial operations partly with renewable fuel; it will buy 15 million gallons over three years.

Commercial airliners could soon be criss - crossing the skies powered by jet fuel made from waste gases from steel mills, thanks to a scientific breakthrough by low - carbon fuel specialists LanzaTech and...

The other is to utilize federal monitored retrievable storage (MRS) facilities, in which the DOE could store nuclear waste from commercial nuclear plants pending permanent disposal or reprocessing.

It doesn't include e-waste from government, business or commercial entities because they're subject to federal and state hazardous waste disposal regulations.

The idea is to «diminish money's influence over the building process,» with Kloehn and his collaborators collecting whatever they can find from illegal dumps, household and commercial waste that can be reused to create small, habitable spaces.

The first large - scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013.

Though not yet ready for commercial production, the Indiana - based company says that it has developed a bio-aviation fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae and wood chips which it says will be cheaper to produce and perform better than current aviation fuels.

Congress has been planning for an underground repository to hold spent fuel from commercial power plants and waste from defense plants since 1982.

IRVINE, Calif. and FULTON, Miss., Nov. 10, 2010 — BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced that it has received all permits to allow start of construction of its first commercial project in Fulton, Mississippi.

Fiona upcycles waste and adds value to what are otherwise discarded items from commercial production.

Acting for food production businesses, transport operators, manufacturing and engineering businesses and other commercial operators in the successful appeals of numerous abatement notices for statutory nuisances arising from diverse sources including food odours, industrial noise, odours from waste operations, dog barking, church bells and fireworks.

«Using our green manufacturing technologies, these microfactories can transform waste where it is stockpiled and created, enabling local businesses and communities to not only tackle local waste problems but to develop a commercial opportunity from the valuable materials that are created.»

• Demonstrated ability to assist cooks in preparation of nutritious meals • Special talent for planning menu for individuals under the supervision of a dietitian or nutritionist • Well - versed in organizing and delivering meal trays to the patients, nursing units and department • Competent at stocking cafeteria with required items • Able to operate commercial dishwasher • Effectively removes waste from area and clean patient carts after every meal