Sentences with phrase «national waste generation»
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The report brings together available state and territory data (mostly from waste tracking systems) and, where gaps exist, it draws on other publicly available information to form a national snapshot of hazardous wastes across their generation, management and disposal cycle.
http://www.environment.gov.au/
An Australian brewery's waste water recovery plant, designed to achieve world's best practice standards of water reuse and green energy generation, has won a Mercury National Materials Handling Award for Best Green Initiative.
The first - ever national food waste goal is just one part of the Obama Administration's commitment to protecting our environment for future generations.
JCM projects use Japanese technological expertise to deploy various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as the installation of energy - efficient transmission lines in Mongolia; the installation of energy - efficient systems in the national hospitals of Vietnam; the installation of energy - efficient refrigeration at commercial food processing centers in Indonesia; the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in the Maldives and Palau; and power generation by waste heat recovery in the cement industry in Indonesia.
They include those increasing coal taxes in India (and Korea, where the levy increased to US$ 21 / t in 2015 from US$ 15 / t in 2014); moves being made to a national emissions - trading scheme like those being undertaken in China and Korea» tightening emissions requirements on coal - fired power generation in the U.S. and India; greater regulation of mine waste disposal ponds in Brazil and the U.S; and greater scrutiny of coal mine rehabilitation subsidies and coal company leasing schemes in the U.S.
Rather than disaggregating resource consumption within countries, using national per capita GDP calculations and projections provides a distorted understanding of the distribution and characteristics of resource use and waste generation.