Sentences with phrase «human waste at»

The fellow who left 40 containers of human waste at the Department of Environmental Conservation's headquarters building has pleaded guilty to criminal mischief and is on probation.

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This is a waste of human potential: it's like driving a high - performance sports car at 20 kilometers an hour.

Waste to energy technology has been backed as an «affordable» way for municipalities to manage wastes and generate energy, with «almost no measurable effect on human health», according to scientists and industry experts at the recent Energy Recovery Symposium in Toronto, Canada.

I agonize at the extraordinary waste of human potential which the despair of ghetto America represents.

Just look at the plastic rubbish on one tiny little island in the South Pacific that doesn't have any human inhabitants, yet has collected 18 million tonnes of plastic waste just from the sea, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

you all are truly wasting your time trying to disprove who God is by looking at human errors.

Flailing away at natural forces will get us nothing but wasted money and inattention to real human need.

I didn't start globalization, I can't stop it — except at a huge cost to human development — and I'm not going to waste my time trying.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

Numerous reports and research papers provide statistics on the quantity of food — estimated at a third of what is produced for human consumption — that goes to waste each year.

Approximately 26 % or 48.1 megatons of edible human food in the United States is wasted at home and at food service establishments, with fresh fruits and vegetables and fluid milk accounting for 19 % and 18 % of these losses, respectively (76).

Katie Anthony, a mother of two and a Seattle - based blogger at KatyKatiKate.com, cloth - diapered for her first baby but crossed over for her second, lamenting, «When you pull the Diaper Genie bag out of the pail, and you just see this blue plastic tube full of NASA - invented synthetic fibers that are soaked in human waste, and it's just this foul little sausage, there's a part of me that is really sad.»

That will at least take care of the human waste aspect once the diaper hits the landfill.

It's my guess that governments are probably going to start cracking down on disposable diapers, containing human waste, entering the landfills at some point.

He's campaigning on the motto «Stop Wasting Our Money,» and proposes capping public - sector salaries at $ 100,000 a year and eliminating various state agencies such as the Thruway Authority, the Division of Human Rights, and the Office of Homeland Security.

A day spent researching a firm, crafting a letter, and customizing a résumé is wasted when a hiring manager or human resources (HR) person spends only a few seconds glancing at them.

If people are born with certain drives, if certain ignoble traits, such as violence and selfishness, are innate, then that might make them unchangeable, and attempts at social reform and human improvement might be proven to be a waste of time.

China has always been quite at home with human waste, they used it raw on the fields for 4,000 years.

The setup, put together by scientists at the International Potato Center, is a hermetically sealed container that mimics the day lengths, atmosphere, and temperature of Mars, fed by a «nutrient rich water» (no word on whether human waste was involved).

«Unfortunately, the phosphorus in human waste is only about 10 percent» of mined phosphate rock, explains David A. Vaccari, director of civil, environmental and ocean engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

«One example of our field work is in Ghana, where we've been working with Engineers Without Borders, the student chapter at Columbia University, to design and implement novel toilets that can separate out the urine stream and the fecal sludge stream from human waste.

«It suggests that tadpoles and other pond organisms are made up of human waste,» said Meredith Holgerson, a research fellow at Portland State who conducted the research at 18 Connecticut ponds when she was a Yale Ph.D. student.

degree program in environmental management at Northumbria University, studying human and physical geography, environmental science, applied ecology and conservation, sustainable development, waste management, and environmental policy and regulation.

At home and abroad, animal and human waste can contaminate both recreational and source waters, carrying with diseases such as polio, typhoid and cholera.

Although the cuts on Jane's bones and their location among other food waste point to survival cannibalism, King would like to see if the team at Jamestown can find conclusive signs, like burn marks on bones, that other remains were prepared for human consumption.

At the conference, Åke Wennmalm of the consulting agency Sustainpharma in Stockholm presented part of a new, expanded classification system that analyzes the environmental impacts of a drug — where data are available — as it travels through manufacturing, disposal, and human waste.

A toxic cloud composed of industrial waste and human remains crept out from the aching, smoldering pit at Ground Zero and wound its way into the adjoining streets.

The human waste, rife with iron, would be especially useful if dumped at sites loaded with cadmium, lead, and arsenic.

But if you look at a community behavior, whether it's in the human gut or a waste - water treatment plant, you see that they are acting as a team.

And as newer versions of organs on chips get better at mimicking the function of real organs — a kidney's ability to filter waste from the bloodstream, for example — the devices themselves may find their way into humans, replacing or augmenting underperforming organs.

At any rate the human body is incredibly complicated, trying to find a single cause for a problem like this maybe a waste of time.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

Sony didn't let any second of its showing go to waste, revealing new beginnings for both established franchises like God of War and studios looking to expand their portfolio like Sony Bend, as well as new looks at Horizon Zero Dawn, Detroit: Become Human.

Whether it's acting like a complete moron at her old sorority house, or inadvertently bathing in a hot spring filled with human waste, she somehow makes even the most idiotic and insulting moment sparkle in ways they never could have otherwise.

«If you don't waste the money you spend, then the savings will take care of themselves,» says Malcolm Hamilton, an actuary at Mercer Human Resource Consulting in Toronto.

 Improperly disposed of dog wastes particularly in the quantities in this case can be harmful to humans and contaminate water supplies and food crops. It is something to look at if you want to close down a puppy mill.       Â

Despite the initial optimism, the XBLIG section proved to be as much of a curse as it was a blessing, because for each title that was genuinely worth taking a look at, there were nine titles that were either shoddily put together by amateurs or simple, exploitative cash - ins on other creative concepts or even just sex appeal, and the only users who browsed the XBLIGs were the truly adventurous, willing to wade through a cesspool of human waste to get the rare nugget of gold.

Released for the PC in 2013, Red Barrels» Outlast is a spin on survival horror that allows you to embrace your inner coward — by running away whilst freely spraying human waste down your legs at every opportunity.

In just the last year or so, four different shows at P.S. 1 have obsessed over human waste, in a museum now way too old to be playing with its food.

At the same time, the creative and productive acts that generate that waste are dazzlingly and essentially human.

Through this edition's theme, «Oxygen», the festival aims to strengthen already existing public awareness on environmental issues through photography and film — exploring concepts of ecological collapse, perishing nature, industrial waste, human helplessness at facing wars, and destruction caused by immigration and urbanisation.

In 2018, Lamensdorf will co-curate an exhibition at the University of Buffalo Art Galleries about radioactive waste and its human and ecological implications.

So the issue to me isn't that carrying water and gathering fuel is a waste of human potential — frankly, that statement does smack of Western elitism, at least superficially.

But if we replace these sources of energy with others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of turning everything on earth into toxic waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any human time scale).

After all, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

Having the human waste separated at source and processed on - site would lower costs needed in recovering resources, as treating mixed waste is energy intensive and not cost - effective,» Prof Wang said.

Mick Womersley, who teaches human ecology at Unity College, has blogged on earlier White House efforts to cut energy waste and weighed in with a Dot Earth comment laying out his argument for a big solar deployment push and expressing pride in his students» initiative.

Afterall, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.