Sentences with phrase «of chemical waste»

For example, the Dutch government is currently conducting a criminal investigation into the alleged dumping of chemical waste in the Ivory Coast by a Dutch - owned company, in which 10 people died and hundreds fell ill, but in some EU countries this would not be possible.

Lois Gibbs led the struggle to have 800 families from her Niagara Falls community evacuated and relocated after discovering that tons of chemical waste material was buried in nearby Love Canal.

A single hydrofracking treatment can yield 15,000 gallons of chemical waste from the fracking fluids.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

Assisted the federal agencies in audit and research to identify effects of chemical wastes on environment

Not exact matches

These new activities for Veolia include the likes of plastics and chemicals recycling, toxic waste handling, the management of water for aquaculture, the production of energy from waste or biomass and the capture of methane.

Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to toxic chemicals, radioactive waste, narcotic drugs and other potentially hazardous materials.

Beside a lake on an empty stretch of land within Inner Mongolia, China «Dozens of pipes line the shore, churning out a torrent of thick, black, chemical waste from the refineries that surround the lake,» writes Tim Maughan.

After Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, millions of Americans have found out the hard way how close they are to toxic waste and how easily they can be exposed as harmful chemicals that leech into floodwaters and wash through homes.

Clean Harbors offers numerous alternatives to waste disposal by providing a variety of recycling, reuse and reclamation options for hazardous and non-hazardous materials — including solvents, precious metals, chemicals, oil, light bulbs, transformers and other electrical equipment.

In addition to performing the cleaning, Clean Harbors can contain, transport and dispose of all waste generated from the chemical cleaning process.

According to experts, the possible cause of this mass mortality could be poisoning from chemical waste dumped into the bay from the drains.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

The generation enjoying the benefits of producing chemical and radioactive waste should consider investing a portion of today's profits in an endowment fund, gathered perhaps from a pollution tax.

Man increasingly is a threat both to himself and to other species by virtue of the powerful things he does to his environment with his machines, his chemicals, his weapons, and his waste products.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

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.

There are several industry collaborations that are working to identify technologies to make collection and sortation of flexible packaging waste feasible and economically effective, as well as research into chemical recycling, which degrades the mixed plastics into monomers or basic chemicals to turn into new products.

But as food manufacturers work to keep chemical - sounding ingredients out of their products, they must also grapple with issues around food safety, waste, sugar reduction and functionality.

Livestock production is the largest source of water pollutants, principally animal wastes, antibiotics, hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feed crops, and sediments from eroded pastures.

I make sure to only ever buy organic molasses because it is the waste product of refining sugar and if there were any chemicals used to grow the sugar they would most certainly end up in concentrated amounts in the resulting molasses.

Employed on waste water streams, such technologies can achieve up to 99 % COD removal in some types of wastewater (COD, chemical oxygen demand, indicating the amount of organic compounds in water).

The technology can be used wherever industry has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

Uncorking the Chemical Potential of Wine Waste: Italian scientists have devised an innovative and economically feasible biorefinery that can squeeze more chemicals out of the mountains of grape waste produced during wine production...

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

The ACCC has» allowed AgStewardship to expand its industry waste reduction scheme to cover a broader range of agricultural and veterinary chemical containers.»

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

COHRAL (TM) technology — which is applicable to both livestock and cropping operations — uses concentrated anaerobic bacteria to digest 70 per cent of the organic matter (COD, or Chemical Oxygen demand) in Oakey Abattoir's waste water to produce effluent of far high quality than typical open lagoons.

«Any factory with a biological waste stream or wastewater with high COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) can easily use this model to generate energy,» said Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.

China has been called out in the news numerous times in the past few years for its poor environmental and waste management practices, excessive application of chemicals and fertilizer, and lack of government and food safety regulations.

«Also, to target a zero - waste society by fully turning agro-waste feedstock into a portfolio of energy and chemicals to substitute non-renewable equivalents, with favorable air, water and soil impacts.»

Also at UNEA 2, she worked with the Mongolian government to draft and submit a resolution, which was ultimately approved, to the United Nations on waste and chemicals management, which touted the importance of reducing food loss and waste.

If you're trying to cut down on food waste, or establish a stockpile of emergency dinners that aren't packed with mystery chemicals and aren't bagel bites, you'll be super into this book.

They enable a waste free lunch, are made out of safe materials which means my family won't be ingesting leached in chemicals and the boxes are even machine washable!

On top of this, millions of tons of untreated waste from the used diapers are added to our landfills as well, along with potentially - toxic chemicals that can find their way into our ground water tables.

For many years, «green» people were hippies living on communes in the middle of nowhere, farming without chemicals and recycling waste.

We passed the money - saving threshold ages ago, but my other motives for starting cloth still hold strong: I'm still keeping waste out of landfills and I'm still limiting my baby's exposure to chemicals.

Filtration In order to make sure that your baby doesn't absorb any waste or chemicals from your blood, the placenta acts as a filter to keep these things out of your baby's system.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

He is the author or co-author of numerous reports including the Wasting of Rural New York State - Factory Farms and Public Health, Volatile Vinyl - the New Shower Curtain's Chemical Smell, Baby's Toxic Bottle - BPA Leaching From Popular Baby Bottles, No Silver Lining - An Investigation Into BPA in Canned Foods, and Toxic Toys R Us.

Cloth diapers keep more trash (and human waste) out of landfills and drastically reduce things like packaging and chemical processing.

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.

I have used them and they do address the issue of convenience, chemicals, and the creation of landfill waste.

AKASTex LLC (who purchased Wazoodle in 2012) says ``... the manufacturing process has no discharges of VOC [Volatile Organic Chemicals] or solvent fumes which helps keep air clean, and generates no solid waste, thereby supporting our efforts towards a clean environment while supplying our customers a high - quality product.»

In our country the situation has become dire because of the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste like plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

The former President said a report in the media that Ghana stood the risk of importing water by 2021 was a reality created by the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste such as plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

Though the fluids were natural and not the byproduct of drilling or hydraulic fracturing, the finding further stokes the red - hot controversy over fracking in the Marcellus Shale, suggesting that drilling waste and chemicals could migrate in ways previously thought to be impossible.

CWM Chemical Services, the only commercial hazardous waste landfill in the northeast, wants to expand its operations in the Niagara County Town of Porter.

A multi-pronged legislative package passed in honor of Earth Day aims to make New York State more environmentally friendly by banning the use of dangerous chemicals, setting clearer policies for disposing of hazardous waste and protecting New York's wetlands.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.