Sentences with phrase «municipal waste into»

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.

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Simple & convenient Put your used pods directly into your municipal food waste or composting container if your area has that service

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.

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.

Andreassen and others anticipate that a large chunk of the world's agricultural, industrial, and municipal waste may someday go into thermal depolymerization machines scattered all over the globe.

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.

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

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.

In addition, while toxicity has occurred from contaminated water getting into the food supply, human exposure to environmental cadmium is primarily the result of the burning of fossil fuels and municipal wastes.

By doing so, the city could provide the nation's greatest test case for the economics of converting municipal solid waste to electricity, heat, reclaimed metals and the rest could be spun into rock wool to provide cheap insulation material.

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer - Tropsch («FT») diesel fuel.

Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)-- household garbage — into jet and diesel fuels.

Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy — a pioneer in the development and commercialization of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into sustainable aviation fuel (earlier post)-- as part of the airline's biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon - neutral growth from 2020.

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.

These «biorefineries» will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high - content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose in municipal solid wastes into ethanol.

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.

New York City's Mayor de Blasio has released a new video, inviting viewers into his family's Park Slope home to learn about the beauty of composting or — more precisely — the city's municipal «Brown Bin» program for organic waste recycling.

These «biorefineries» will convert widely available, inexpensive, organic materials such as agricultural residues, high - content biomass crops, wood residues, and cellulose in municipal solid wastes into valuable and renewable end products.

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.