Sentences with phrase «in municipal waste»

Indeed, we see solar power on construction sites and other road signs, creating electricity at public parking lots or in electric vehicle charging stations, or helping to compact garbage in municipal waste bins (see the examples here and here).

In 2011, the EPA made the determination that fracking waste is too radioactive (from exposure to underground cesium and uranium) to be processed in municipal waste facilities.

The 2006 Waste Characterization Study identifies the major constituents in the municipal waste stream.

In the municipal waste stream, plastic and Styrofoam comprise about 19 % of the volume, and therefore 19 % of the cost of national solid waste management.

Not exact matches

Western Australians could be using energy converted from municipal solid waste in less than two years if companies proposing waste - to - energy plants achieve their timeframes.

It describes a city investing in energy and resource effectiveness, with falling water consumption and only two per cent of municipal waste going to landfill in 2010.

Walmart Canada's 12 waste programs — including cardboard, organics, metal and others — has resulted in the diversion of 72 % of Walmart Canada's waste from municipal land - fill sites.

Today, 244 of Walmart Canada's stores send organic waste for composting or anaerobic digestion so it doesn't end up in municipal landfill.

Polystyrene foodservice packaging — ya know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight, of the total one percent of polystyrene products generated in municipal solid waste.

Polystyrene foodservice packaging — you know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight, of the total one percent of polystyrene products generated in municipal solid waste.

Another municipal waste - to - energy project — using technology available in Australasia — is designed to convert more than 65,000 tons of mixed organic waste a year into environmentally harmonious green energy and dry fertilizer.

This National Waste Policy builds on earlier commitments and responds to the new waste environment, the policy covers wastes, including hazardous wastes and substances, in the municipal, commercial and industrial, construction and demolition waste streams and covers gaseous, liquid and solid wastes.

The new service will particularly benefit municipal and industrial users of waste water and water recycling technologies that do not always have optimal engineering services available in - house, says the Managing Director of CST Wastewater solutions Mr Michael Bambridge.

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

High efficiency fine screening technology engineered to deliver low maintenance performance with reduced OHS hazards for municipal and industrial waste water schemes is demonstrating immediate results in one of its new applications CST -LSB-...]

EU Parliament votes in favor of waste legislation package; 2030 recycling targets set at 60 % for municipal waste and 70 % for packaging; manufacturers to make information on SVHC content in products available to public

FAST achieves nutrient removal for applications containing high level of nitrogen, a water pollutant that has increased significantly in industrial, commercial and municipal applications and which is an environmental concern particularly to resources, engineering, construction, hospitality, marine, agribusiness and public facility and water and waste water infrastructure organizations.

«In Växjö, the greenest city in Europe, we strive to produce meals with a lower effect on the environment in municipal kitchens by purchasing locally produced and ecological foodstuffs, reduce waste, increase the proportion of vegetables and adapt menus to the season.&raquIn Växjö, the greenest city in Europe, we strive to produce meals with a lower effect on the environment in municipal kitchens by purchasing locally produced and ecological foodstuffs, reduce waste, increase the proportion of vegetables and adapt menus to the season.&raquin Europe, we strive to produce meals with a lower effect on the environment in municipal kitchens by purchasing locally produced and ecological foodstuffs, reduce waste, increase the proportion of vegetables and adapt menus to the season.&raquin municipal kitchens by purchasing locally produced and ecological foodstuffs, reduce waste, increase the proportion of vegetables and adapt menus to the season.»

Incinerated municipal solids and other waste streams results in a significant amount of ash residue, which often contains valuable metals.

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 are one of the largest contributors to landfills; in Canada, they represent approximately 3 % of total residential waste.10 The 2008 Municipal Waste Report from the EPA indicated that in the US, diapers contribute 2.3 % of the weight of all products discarded.

That is, collect, treat and dispose of municipal and industrial waste in the most efficient and environmentally sound manner.

Disposable diapers may make up only 1 % of the municipal waste stream, but, most of the harm disposable diapers do to the environment is actually in their production — not disposal.

My assumption is that the mafia plays a decisive role in determining the destination of collected municipal waste in order to gain profit from illegal disposal, and that, by doing so, it behaves as a (bad) alternative provider of a public service.

If this were the case, then those of us who live in less salubrious areas wouldn't have the municipal dump or waste incinerators on our doorsteps.

Fresh Kills is the last of the landfills in New York City and the last unlined municipal solid waste landfill in New York State.

The facility would burn 2,600 tons of solid municipal waste brought in by truck and or rail each day, and produce what proponents call «clean electricity.»

The Bill did not succeed that year but the Government eventually backed a similar Bill by Joan Ruddock and the Municipal Waste Recycling Bill was passed in October 2003, increasing the levels of recycling of residential waste.

If you burn PVC [in a municipal - waste incinerator], you get dioxin — very toxic.»

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

New eco-clothes are still new clothes, and the fashion industry's insistence that one season's cool togs are the next season's trash spurs us to squander resources: Americans discarded 8,640,000 tons of clothing and footwear in 2006, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates of municipal solid waste generation — a quantity that has more than doubled since 1990.

In this way, their procedure, if expanded to commercial scale, could alleviate stress on municipal waste infrastructures at the same time as producing commercially viable materials that do not constrain food supplies.

As a result, rainwater bounces off and collects as runoff, picking up impurities — including infectious bacteria from animal waste as well as harmful pesticides and fertilizers — on the way to municipal storm sewers, which in turn eventually empty out into local bodies of water.

The new findings should help scientists harness the abundant energy currently stored in waste from agricultural, municipal and industrial sources.

In the aftermath of Yucca's mothballing, the DOE has pursued a diverse strategy of nuclear waste management that includes tentative plans for consolidated interim storage facilities, tests of deep boreholes as another possible long - term storage technique, and the development of «consent - based» siting protocols to gain support from municipal and state governments.

One facility in Utashinai, Japan, has been doing just that since 2003, using plasma — an electrically induced stream of hot, charged particles — to process up to 220 tons of municipal solid waste a day.

United Airlines recently purchased a refinery to supply its planes with aviation fuel made entirely from municipal solid waste and Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines and British Airways have announced plans to begin using biofuels in the next two to five years.

Food waste is the single largest component going into municipal landfills in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In recent years, humans have been introducing exotic earthworm species from Europe and Asia through fishing, timber harvesting, municipal green waste management and gardening.

For example, if the evidence shows that effluents from municipal water treatment, from animal manure, or from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are selecting for antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment, that may justify treatment of such waste streams prior to application on croplands.

Although new technologies have already been developed for the recovery of dissolved inorganic phosphates in the liquid fractions of municipal and agricultural wastes, solid residues remain a largely untapped source for phosphorus in its organic form.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

Kmart had advertised the plates as biodegradable, which FTC deemed misleading because the plates would not usually decompose in municipal solid waste facilities, where about 90 percent of garbage is disposed.

Unwanted cell phones, televisions, PCs (including desktops, laptops, portables and computer monitors), computer peripherals (including printers, scanners and fax machines), computer mouses and keyboards amounted to more than 1.9 million tons of solid municipal waste in the U.S.; of that, more than 1.5 million tons were dumped primarily into landfills, whereas the rest was recycled, the EPA says.

«Our principal findings provide a more accurate estimate of municipal waste disposal in the United States compared to previous estimates,» study co-author Jon T. Powell, a Yale doctoral student, said.

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).

One of the first analyses of laws banning disposal of electronic waste (e-waste) in municipal landfills has found that state e-waste recycling bans have been mostly ineffective, although California's Cell Phone Recycling Act had a positive impact on cell phone recycling.

In late 2008, samples of Chico's municipal drinking water were found to contain radium, a radioactive derivative of uranium and a common attribute of drilling waste.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane - rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996.

Lindberg, S.E., Southworth, G.R., Bogle, M.A., Blasing, T.J., Zhang, H., Kuiken, T., Price, J., Reinhart, D., Sfeir, H., Owens, J., Roy, K. Airborne emissions of mercury from municipal solid waste I: New measurements from six operating landfills in Florida.