Sentences with phrase «generate more waste»

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Spending more minutes thinking about the levers required to generate actual engagement should fill the gap in marketers» time as they seek to reduce waste and step up interaction with their content and messaging.

We still must find a place for waste «that has already been generated, and the longer we postpone dealing with it directly, the more we increase the danger of contamination.

The two spoke about their company's multi-part mission to 1) reduce food waste while simultaneously 2) generating extra revenue for farmers via 3) making produce more affordable for all.

«We believe that in doing so and delivering this system, retailers will see margins go up by four to five percent, see their waste decrease by half and generate more sales to more happy customers,» Hershberger says.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to generate energy — rather than waste water plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.

Further, the EPA reports more food goes into landfills nationwide than any other single material in municipal solid waste, and in 2010 alone Americans generated more than 34 million tons of food waste.

Disposable diapers generate sixty times more solid waste and use twenty times more raw materials, like crude oil and wood pulp.

The statement added that it is worthy of note that the Osun government has perfected its strategy for waste management in such a way that the people are conscious of the need to be more responsible in the handling of wastes generated by them.

The most direct method to make energy consumption more sustainable is for a user to generate its own power by, for example, installing solar panels or by burning waste gas.

Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.

There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.

The process is dangerous, slow, and wasteful: More than 400,000 American construction workers are injured each year, and a typical American house takes at least six months to complete, generating about four tons of waste.

«Although some aspects of normal state spin electronics, or spintronics, are more efficient than standard semiconductor electronics, the large - scale application has been prevented because the large charge currents required to generate spin currents waste too much energy,» said Professor Mark Blamire of Cambridge's Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, who led the research.

But as transistors become tinier they waste more power and generate more heat — all in a smaller and smaller space, as evidenced by the warmth emanating from the bottom of a laptop.

Others, meanwhile, could reduce future nuclear waste burdens by operating for decades without refuelling, burning up more of their fuel and generating smaller volumes of waste.

So when higher - energy photons come into the solar cell, they devote more of their energy to dislodging electrons and generating electric current, and waste less as heat.

When a photon that has at least double the energy that is needed to move an electron strikes the lead selenide quantum dots, it can excite two or more electrons instead of letting the extra energy go to waste, generating more current than a conventional solar cell.

Fly Ash Bricks In the process of generating electricity, U.S. coal plants spew more than 70 million tons a year of a radioactive waste called fly ash.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

This would generate at least a hundred times more electricity from used nuclear fuel and decrease the long - term radiotoxicity of the remaining wastes.

«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.

When organic material like food waste is sent to landfills, it generates methane — a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

TD: I was surprised by the amount of waste generated when planning my own wedding, and I felt that there should be more resource - sharing platforms for brides.

The waste products generated during fasting are much more acidic than during normal time.

How about the fact that all of GM's global facilities recycle or reuse more than 90 percent of the waste they generate and 102 of them are landfill - free.

I'm with you — what a wasted of dollars spent that could have generated far, far more useful gains (like from Chase Ink, as you note)

The biomethane that fuels the Bio-Bus is generated from sewage and food waste (waste which is unfit for human consumption), and because the bus» engine produces lower emissions while burning biomethane than conventional diesel does, it could not only help improve air quality, but also help to prove the case for more waste - to - fuel projects.

Whether you choose actions to curb emissions, save water, spend more time outdoors, generate less waste — or you create your own challenge — you'll be making a world of difference by participating in the EcoChallenge.

You can choose actions to curb emissions, save water, eat more sustainable foods or generate less waste (to name a few).

The military like it; A soldier generates more than seven pounds of packaging waste per day, and getting rid of the trash requires «personnel, fuel and critical transport equipment.»

Thorium can even absorb existing waste and burn it to generate more energy.

Discussed in this paper is promoting the feasibility of removing more paper from the waste stream that is now going to the landfill and using it to generate electricity.

The amount of waste generated is increasing over time due to an increasing population, a more disposable throw away lifestyle, and the lack of diversion markets.

You said that they do nt generate less waste because they use more raw materials and you can recycle 90 % of the waste you produce.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

Catamount Earth Institute's June 2013 Newsletter Catamount EcoChallenge Report EcoChallenge participants generated less waste, ate a healthier diet, used less energy and more public transportation.

In recent years, more attention has been given to creating energy generated from waste and from biomass consisting of organic materials.

Combined cycle: An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more gas (combustion) turbines.

These items, to people such as myself who pay close attention to how much and what kind of waste is generated within the household or wish to minimize possessions, are more of a burden than a kindness because eventually they must be disposed of or donated (which often means landfilled in the long run).

Bladders should not be re-used, which means more waste is generated.

Rolling Stone reported that in 2015, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, with around 90,000 attendees in southeast Tennessee, generated more than 979 tons of waste in just four days.

In in 2009, more than 6.6 billion pounds of e-waste was generated in the U.S., making it the fastest growing municipal waste stream in the country.

It's far more effective to reduce the amount of food waste that gets generated in the first place, and to have municipal, community, or neighborhood food waste solutions managing the actual decomposition of the organic matter, but that's a whole other topic entirely.

This AGL operated landfill extracts methane - rich gas from decomposing organic waste to generate 7,500 MWh of electricity per annum, enough to supply more than 1,100 homes.

Grupo Bimbo, which produces more than 5,000 bakery products, from loaves and pastries to cookies, chocolates and sweet and salted snacks, hopes that the biodegradable plastic will help to offset its contribution to the 10 million cubic meters of waste generated every month in Mexico.

We committed to eating more locally grown and processed foods, as well as to reducing the amount of waste we generate.

The average single gold ring, weighing in at 1/3 of an ounce, generates 20 tons of waste, and gold mining can cause a bevy of problems that run the gamut from air, water and soil pollution to human rights violations (more info on dirty gold can be found here).

All the while generating about 20 % more waste, and 500 times more CO2 emissions, than the end weight of the shirt.This is a brave initiative by Patagonia to put even more of their cards on the table for all to see.

3) It puts waste to good use: Plastic water bottles can suddenly generate more drinkable water.