Sentences with phrase «municipal waste»

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.

Of this, about 45 % was from wood and wood - derived biomass, 44 % from biofuels (mainly ethanol), and about 11 % from municipal waste.

Moreover, he's not sure the public would support such a system for municipal waste.

Treatment and reuse options are needed for municipal waste.

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.

In in 2009, more than 6.6 billion pounds of e-waste was generated in the U.S., making it the fastest growing municipal waste stream in the country.

The laws that have been most effective such as the Clean Water Act for municipal waste treatment, have a carrot, low interest loans to build an better treatment plant, or fines if you did not.

«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.

Maine is tied with four other states for the highest percentage of energy consumption from renewable resources and has the highest percentage of recycled solid municipal waste of the 50 states.

This is the world's first agreement signed between a large urban center and a biofuel producer to turn municipal waste into ethanol.»

Industrial activities currently generate nearly 7.6 billion tons of solid waste in the U.S. each year, 3,000 % of the total municipal waste generated by Americans annually; on the other hand, electronic waste is currently the fastest growing solid waste stream, growing two to three times faster than any other waste stream.

The compact KDS multi-disc roller separator — which is already being installed in Lowd Howe Island's municipal waste processing facility to help protect the island's pristine beauty — can also be used to help minimise the environmental footprint of resources camps, food processing facilities in sensitive areas and for small - to - medium municipal facilities in Australia and New Zealand.

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.»

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.

The best answer may be biomass: woody waste and — in slightly trickier forms — cow manure and even municipal waste that could power and heat entire towns in the United States.

Water abstractions per capita Municipal waste generation per capita CO2 emissions per capita (2005 data, sourced from UN) Hectares of cropland per capita (2005 data, sourced from UN (figures for Belgium and Luxembourg were sourced from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data)

According to Benjamin Dachis, a policy analyst for the C.D. Howe Institute who authored a recent report on the benefits of competition in municipal waste services, fully contracting out garbage collection could save up to $ 50 million per year.

Enerkem is to handle operations and the city is to supply 100,000 tonnes annually of sorted municipal waste that can not be composted or recycled.

Edmonton is considered a leader in municipal waste management.

Founded in 2013 by Managing Partner Ibrahim AlHusseini, FullCycle and our operating partner Synova Power, utilize next generation gasification technologies to convert municipal waste into clean energy that reduces greenhouses gases while powering communities around the world.

The story of savings from municipal waste contracting applies to more than only Toronto.

Here MIKE BAMBRIDGE * shares his extensive experience of Australasian and global municipal waste water schemes to show where such technologies can produce both -LSB-...]

Municipal waste strengths are measured in terms of BOD (biological oxygen demand), SS (suspended solids) and FOG (fats oils and greases).

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.

Once the filter is saturated, the gas will be released by warming it with the heat generated by a nearby municipal waste incineration plant, then piped to a 4 hectare greenhouse.

Many municipal waste facilities and some vendors accept fluorescents; the EPA and Earth 911 maintain online directories of collection sites.

It's a common process for reducing municipal waste on Earth.

Municipal Waste: Municipal waste energy comprises wastes produced by the residential, commercial and public services sectors and incinerated in specific installations to produce heat and / or power.

Just over 13 percent of global energy is derived from renewable sources, 10.6 percent of which from combustible renewables and renewable municipal waste.

The table below shows data compiled by the International Energy Agency, which estimates carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of coal, natural gas, oil and other fuels, including industrial waste and non-renewable municipal waste.

Though probably not front and center on their agenda, implementing progressive solutions to managing municipal waste directly addresses several of the local and national energy and environmental resolutions proposed by mayors across the country.

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).

He has experience in a broad range of finance, acquisition and restructuring transactions, including wind, solar and geothermal electricity generation projects, municipal waste projects, and large - scale infrastructure projects.

Rather, find out where the nearest municipal waste - recovery site is located, or consult the Yellow PagesTM under «recycling.»

Wales could be set to target an 80 per cent municipal waste recycling rate by 2035, according to Welsh Minister for Environment Hannah Blythyn at the CIWM Resource Conference Cymru yesterday (14 March).

Black water is wastewater from toilets, which has come into contact with fecal matter and therefore must be disposed of properly through a septic or municipal waste system.

«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.

Landfill remaining the main destination for municipal waste disposal (46 percent of total waste is landfilled on average according to environmental NGOs) despite considerable policy effort by EU authorities to increase waste separation and deter waste production at the source.

To help increase fuel availability, British Airways announced a partnership earlier this year to create a new jet fuel from municipal waste (ClimateWire, April 25).

Second, it reduces potentially toxic runoff into city sewers, which reduces the volume of water and overall wear on city infrastructure and also reduces the environmental impact of municipal waste water.

In late 2013, GM joined with Detroit Renewable Energy to announce a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from the metropolitan Detroit area into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of Detroit - Hamtramck assembly plant, home of the Chevrolet Volt.

A group of Finger Lakes residents took a bus to Albany Tuesday to continue their fight against a proposed 48 - acre trash incinerator facility that would burn solid municipal waste brought in by truck and or rail.

The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $ 786 million into new ways to convert corn, wood, grass, and municipal waste into fuel for America's cars.

He points to a decision earlier this year that halted construction on a mixed - waste materials recovery facility for municipal waste in Indianapolis.

Indeed, statistical results from a panel of 1320 observations across 101 provinces show that the presence of mafia networks results in up to 93 percent of municipal waste being diverted into illegal streams.