Catalytic micro-reactors may provide green chemistry alternatives —
less chemical waste, lower cost and minimal energy waste — to conventional, industrial - sized reactors because they make it easier to control the chemical - reaction conditions and operate the reactor closer to optimal conditions.
Not exact matches
I opt for Imperfect Produce's organic box each week in the hopes that I am contributing
less to the use of
chemicals and pesticides in agricultural use, and getting the rescued vegetables box each week makes me optimistic that I am helping to alleviate food
waste in the United States.
Not only are they eco-friendly (
chemical free, reusable, and
less waste), they are also soft AND much more effective for cleaning your baby up.
The new technique would also be more widely applicable than traditional
chemical - based methods since it would depend
less on the nuclear
waste's
chemical composition.
While «the
waste's composition would influence the performance of the plasma mass filter in some ways, the effect would most likely be
less than that associated with
chemical techniques,» said Gueroult.
For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and
chemical waste more or
less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.
Regulators refer to such
waste as salt water or brine, but it often includes
less benign contaminants, including fracking
chemicals, benzene and other substances known to cause cancer.
This costs you
less money in the long run, keeps food fresh without
chemicals, generates
less clutter and creates
less waste that can end up in landfills, rivers, lakes and oceans.
Bottled water, which is often tainted with
chemicals, is becoming a
less popular option due to the
waste generated by the plastic containers.
Less chemicals and
waste must make some difference long term
If the food is made with lower quality ingredients such as by - products, grain fractions, and
chemical preservatives, it will be
less digestible and therefore excreted as
waste in the form of higher stool volume and excess gas.
While nuclear energy is regarded as the
lesser of the two evils when compared at an emission level to the burning of fossil - fuels, it may trump on the containment of the heat process, which burns in a contained nuclear reactor through an in - ward heat -
chemical reaction called fission, but nuclear energy production is a chain from uranium mining to the toxic
waste disposal and therefore as an entire process is an equally high risk environmental option.