Sentences with phrase «much a waste material»

Litter Training With Respect To «Pills» From the point of view of the rabbit, droppings or «pills» are not so much a waste material as a tool to mark territory.

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These changing material ratios — what the industry calls an «evolving ton» — have led to higher processing costs for recyclers, as they have to push much larger volumes of waste through their facilities to yield each one - ton bale of raw material.

NAST regrets very much that the anti-GMO elements who destroyed the plants have caused the needless waste of time, effort, and materials in a lawfully - conducted scientific inquiry.

Companies across sectors have a difficult time measuring exactly how much of their waste stream is organic material and further understanding of how much of it is good, nutritious food that could go to those in need or be turned into energy or composted, as opposed to being sent to landfill.

Today's customers demands as much, and want materials that are recyclable or recycled, cut emissions and reduce waste.

«While much of the waste we produce can be recycled or reused, polystyrene foam is not one of those materials,» Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia says.

That means 36 states with reactors, hospitals and other industry with radioactive materials have no place to send much of their waste.

For instance, the Lexington, Mass. — based 1366 Technologies received funds to develop its «monocrystalline equivalent» wafers that are formed directly from melted silicon rather than sawed from a block, which wastes as much as half of the semiconducting material.

While conventional sintered magnet manufacturing may result in material waste of as much as 30 to 50 percent, additive manufacturing will simply capture and reuse those materials with nearly zero waste, said Parans Paranthaman, principal investigator and a group leader in ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division.

Changing World Technologies» method of thermal depolymerization used intense heat and pressure to break waste materials into desirable, short - chain hydrocarbons (much like the Earth's super-slow, fossil fuel - producing process).

In it they establish 12 guiding principles for chemists, concepts like preventing waste by incorporating as much of the materials used into the final product, and choosing the least complicated reaction.

«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.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

Much of the raw material is salvaged electronic waste shipped from the U.S. and the rest of the world to Hong Kong.

There is almost too much here to take in: tax incentives, export controls, forestry policy, waste reduction and recycling proposals, CO2 taxes, electrical co-generation, virgin materials fees... There is even a discussion of energy - saving light bulbs and how to market them more efficiently.

An added benefit of recycling electronic materials — be they copper, lead or silicon — is that we will not have to mine as much from the earth, says Bob Dellinger, the EPA Office of Solid Waste's director of hazardous waste identification.

«This new material is better than the traditional material, Bismuth telluride, and can be used for waste heat conversion into electricity much more efficiently,» said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair professor of physics at UH and the lead author of a paper describing the discovery, published online by Nano Energy.

Lesson plans include - How much energy does our school use and how to develop materials for an Action against energy waste!

Much of the construction occurs in a central manufacturing facility, eliminating on - site mess and waste and keeping materials safe from theft and the elements.

Before too long, the crucibles for cleaning the brushes were removed with the explanation that too much valuable material was wasted in the water.

It's much easier to buy an essay from our website at OnlineCollegeEssay.com than to waste a lot of time on searching for the material on your own.

Functioning as an anthropologist or a conservationist almost as much as an artist, Asim conceives large - scale works and constructions that integrate high and low technology, blending materials like bamboo and urban waste with sensors or digital mapping techniques to illustrate the compatibility of traditional and modern technologies.

Gaskells Waste, who recycle as much as possible from the waste generated at Tate Liverpool, will also be providing clean recycled materials for use in The Great Green Sculpture Challenge, and once the event has ended Gaskells will remove the sculptures and ensure they are recycled.

The artist focused much of his attention to felt, which he piled, stacked and hung from the wall in order to test its abilities, along with other industrial raw materials such as dirt and thread waste.

And how much gasoline can you make from that material vs. waste streams?

A waste audit is a great way to get an understanding of how much of each type of material your school throws away and will provide information to help you and your students to answer the following questions:

It is nice to have my ductwork and air handlers in a conditioned attic space, both in terms of reduced duct losses and easier maintenance, but it drives me crazy to see how much building material and energy is wasted by the steep roof due to its higher surface area.

Commercial SSO waste streams are likely to contain a high proportion of soiled paper waste compared to food waste; however, on a weight basis it would be expected that the fraction of food waste is higher due to the fact that food waste is very high in moisture, whereas paper material would be much less dense with a lower moisture content.

However, the country sticks to a simple plan: avoid waste as much as possible, recover valuable raw materials from waste, generate green energy from waste when possible and only discard the waste that is left over.

Ramp up fuel supply — take back waste — store for a relatively short time and then reprocess for much more efficient 4th gen plants using a range of materials including thorium and plutonium.

The Designer tells Dezeen: «The Packaging lamp was first inspired from my observations of how much packaging material is wasted from every new product bought,» explains Gardener.

Indeed, we've seen a shift by manufacturers from Apple to HP to Nokia all striving to reduce packaging waste as much as possible (which translates to a reduction in GHGs during transportation) and boosting the recyclability, and use of recycled materials in packaging.

With so much cargo in products, food, and materials coming into the city every day, can we prevent the excess of waste and make it sustainable?

Otherwise I wonder how much more efficient it really is than using conventional wood framing; there is a lot of complicated cutting out of the sheet of plywood and a fair amount of waste material here.

In the «Re-sea Me» project, Hoogvliet's aim was to bring attention to how much fish waste is generated, and to encourage others to think of new ways to use this potentially quite beautiful material.

If any of them actually produces a salable material in the end rather than a waste product to be disposed of, it'd be much more attractive economically.

(like the circuit board shown made partly from chicken feathers) One waste material that we have way too much of is Carbon Dioxide; Geoff Coates of Cornell is making plastic that is almost 50 % CO2 by weight.

of items are wastefully packaged, how these almost - empty big boxes take up more space than necessary in shipping trucks, forcing them to make more trips for the same amount of cargo... It all adds up to a huge waste of materials and energy that could fairly easily be avoided without much negative consequences.»

By continuing to modernize waste treatment, help NGOs raise citizen awareness of the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), build more incentives for the industry to improve, reduce and recycle materials (think of Bill McDonough's idea), and better enforce standards for waste disposal, Chinese cities like Beijing have a shot at dealing with their growing trash pile — and making much more money than Beijing's freelance recyclers make now.

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.

New tech like that also starts on a small scale, because of low yields, so you don't waste as much material, so it's gonna go in the watch first.

The company's marketing material makes it seem as though the display occupies the whole of the ring's interior, but it's actually a much smaller chunk, with a lot of that space wasted.

The facilities focus on Recycling and Recovering as much of the material received and reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill.

The facilities focus on Recycling and Recovering as much of the material received and reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill.

With much of a project's assembly occurring in a factory, weather delays and damage to building materials is nearly eliminated, making for less waste and faster completion.

«There is no such thing as waste or surplus material and reusing it saves the environment by reducing the need to mine so much raw material in the first place.»