Sentences with phrase «huge amount of waste»

As we transition from industrial to digital culture, civilization continues to generate huge amounts of waste.
Both farming and food processing yield huge amounts of waste matter like food peels, oil and animal matter that can be biologically processed to produce gas that can be used for heating homes, for generating electricity as well as in a refined form used to power cars.
Demolishing buildings to make green space releases dust into the air and produces huge amounts of waste - often it's more environmental to work with what you've already got.
That's a huge amount of waste.
The sheer volume of waste, combined with the misconceptions surrounding what is and isn't recyclable (coffee cups are a great example), result in a huge amount of waste that is destined for landfill.
There is a huge amount of waste associated with disposable diapers both in terms of their production (the water, raw materials, energy, etc. that go in to making them) and where they end up.
And then all that gets thrown out, so there's a huge amount of waste.
«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.
And then all that gets thrown out, so there's a huge amount of waste, in addition to the, relative to that, the relatively small waste that comes from the patient himself or herself that consists of — these people are having eight to ten liters a day of diarrheal stools during the acute phases of the illness, and then all the other things that we know of in terms of needles and gloves and routine things.
Without getting into the minutia, there are some casting issues that caused us to have a huge amount of waste, we were getting about one block out of 25 to ensure the quality we had to have.
In addition to compromising animal welfare, factory farms generate a huge amount of waste, which pollutes air, water, and soil, degrading the natural environment and threatening public health.
Moving has the potential to create a huge amount of waste if you leave the slightest thing to chance.
If they're really 3,500 working phones used on this sculpture, and I'm pretty sure it is, then it is little more than an illustration of a huge amount of waste.
The marketing tactic has proven to be a success, however, the Society has realized the huge amount of waste that has been produced from this yearly blitz.
In nearly two years of making deliveries, what he realized is that there's a huge amount of wasted food, and an equally huge problem with hunger in the state of Oregon.
It's estimated that getting one liter of bottled drinking water into our hands requires seven liters of water and a quarter liter of oil, so there are a huge amount of wasted resources tied up in our bottled water habit, as well as an enormous plastic trash problem from all of those bottles and packaging.
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