Sentences with phrase «contaminating food production»

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Keratin production itself can be reduced by getting more vitamin A, avoiding arsenic contaminated foods, and avoiding other heavy metals.

Even if production ceased, future generations would continue to be exposed to the PFCs that remain in our contaminated water, air, and food.

Writing as background for their work, van Kempen et al. (2016) note that Azollaceae are among the fastest growing plants in the world and that such free - floating freshwater ferns are utilized and valued «as a green fertilizer in paddy fields,» as «a phytoremediation tool for contaminated surface waters and wastewaters, and for the production of biogas and animal food,» citing Wagner (1997) and van Hove and Lejeune (2002).

Then there's the added energy cost of production, packaging, and transporting to stores and homes and away to landfill, where disposable plates and cups — which can be made of plastic, Styrofoam, virgin wood fibers, plastic - coated paper, post-consumer recycled fibers, or agricultural waste products such as bagasse, and are usually non-recyclable because they are contaminated with food residue — will sit for hundreds of years, slowly decomposing and releasing methane gas.