Sentences with phrase «from organic residues»

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But increasingly farmers also sell biomass — the residue left over after crops like corn and wheat are harvested — to companies developing fuel from organic material.

The figure of Don Juan is an imaginative impossibility in our time because he comes from a period in which the human being was understood not merely as a biological machine, generated randomly out of the incessant flux of an aleatory universe, but as a radiant and terrible enigma, dangerously and daringly poised between beast and angel, hell and heaven, the elemental abyss and the infinite God: a period in which it was still just possible to believe that human freedom was not merely the all - but - illusory residue of a random confluence of mindless physical forces and organic mechanisms, but a glimpse of the transcendent within the world of matter.

Apart from GMOs, it's important to choose organic in order to avoid toxic pesticide residue.

Instead of plowing, farmers leave crop residue on fields after the harvest where it acts as a mulch to protect soil from erosion and a source of organic matter.

Crop contamination from these residues represents a major challenge for organic — as well as for our whole food system.

I had peace of mind that I was actively limiting my kids» exposure to synthetic chemical residues, while also reflecting on how much easier it is now to buy organic produce from a wide variety of market outlets.

Out of a 3,300 m ³ digester for the potato peels and primary sludge, GWE is able to produce up to 14,150 m ³ of biogas per day from ± 230 Ton of organic residues per day (potato peels + primary sludge).

Hydrogen peroxide has the same function as chlorine in hydroponics — that is, it kills undesirable organics, but goes into the atmosphere from a liquid in about 2 hours and leaves no residue in the water; the same can not be said for chlorine, which is residual and may harm plants if the concentration is too high.

Also in the case of non-organic carrots, peeling helps to rid the carrot of any residue that might be left over from pesticides (I try to always use organic though).

The chemical residue from non-organic cotton can jeopardise organic baby clothes.

Each time it rains, runoff carries an earthy tea steeped from leaf litter, crop residue, soil, and other organic materials into the storm drains and streams that feed Chesapeake Bay.

McGovern extracted the organic material from the residues using chloroform and methanol.

The contents of ceramic vessels decay over time, leaving a film of residue containing proteins from any organic matter stored within.

Besides non-renewable reserves, alternative phosphate resources include municipal wastewater and agricultural organic residues such as livestock manure or digestate from biogas plants.

Humic substances, which refer to a mixture of soil organic matter resulting from the decomposition of plant and animal residues, contain three fractions — fulvic acid, humic acid and humin — that have been shown through previous research to have a beneficial effect on plant root initiation and elongation.

In addition, if you eat meat, make sure that it's organic so you won't be ingesting antibiotic residues from chemically treated animals.

Eggs that meet requirements for the «organic» label come from hens that have been fed organic food, have far less likelihood of pesticide residue, and contain no antibiotics or added hormones.

Even though butternut squash has a peel which can protect some produce from pesticide residue, you may want to consider buying organic squash.

While crops harvested from organically managed fields sometimes contain pesticide residues, the levels are usually 10-fold to 100-fold lower in organic food, compared to the corresponding, conventionally grown food.

By choosing organic, one hopes to shift exposures from a range of uncertain risk to more of a range of negligible risk, but even if all we had to eat were the most pesticide - laden of conventional produce, there is a clear consensus in the scientific community that the health benefits from consuming fruits and vegetables outweigh any potential risks from pesticide residues.

The residue or «cake» that is left from this pressing is blended and fortified with natural sources of NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium) to produce an excellent organic fertilizer.

Biomass heating systems generate heat from plant and other organic materials and residues.

A scientist shows that baleen whales are consuming Antarctic krill contaminated by accumulated residues of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from pesticides and industrial chemicals.

Even though butternut squash has a peel which can protect some produce from pesticide residue, you may want to consider buying organic squash.

The project, undertaken by Canada's leading processor of canned and frozen vegetables, avoids landfill methane emissions from six Ontario and Quebec based processing plants by valorizing organic waste residues into nutritional products for animals.