Sentences with phrase «of industrial waste»

In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial waste is dumped into the water supply with no treatment.
Since the fabric is made out of the industrial waste from flax fibre, it doesn't use any extra natural resources and requires little energy to produce.
But there are still environmental concerns from one front, about the choice to build a stage on top of 80 feet of industrial waste beds.
However, no matter how hard a man tries to reduce the emission of industrial waste, the process of global warming can not be stopped.
Co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.
Coal ash is the second largest source of industrial waste in the country, after mining, according to a joint report from the nonprofit environment law organization, Earthjustice, and the Physicians for Social Responsibility.
However, big cities offer opportunities for co-generation of electricity and use of industrial waste heat to reduce per capita energy consumption.
Vertex Energy, Inc. engages in the recycle of industrial waste streams and off - specification commercial chemical products.
This being said, animals raised on pastures in the vicinity of industrial waste dumping grounds are exposed to more heavy metals and pollutants.
Onondaga Lake was once called the most polluted lake in the nation after years of industrial waste led to the waterway's degradation.
«There's a lot of industrial waste,» Mahoney said.
This type of contamination typically arises from rupture of underground storage tanks, application of pesticides and herbicides, percolation of contaminated surface water to subsurface strata, leaching of wastes from landfills or direct discharge of industrial wastes to the soil.
We can't continue to indefinitely expand our old practices — of chemical use, of water diversion, of plowing wild lands and converting them to farms, of nonagricultural sprawl, and of the production of industrial waste.
In addition to traditional asphalt concrete and cement concrete, the researchers also assessed several other material alternatives, such as reflective coatings and the use of industrial waste products like slag and fly ash, to replace some of the energy - intensive cement in cement concrete.
A toxic cloud composed of industrial waste and human remains crept out from the aching, smoldering pit at Ground Zero and wound its way into the adjoining streets.
Few municipal systems are equipped to handle micropollutants — such as pharmaceuticals, hormones, microplastics, nanoparticles in socks and synthetic fleece, and antifungal compounds — even types of industrial waste that are present in very low concentrations.
Small plastic pellets called «mermaids» tears», which are the result of industrial waste and have spread across the entire planet's Oceans.
Sugar consumption climbed until it is now in the stratosphere, and food has become ultra-pasteurized, taken apart and put back together, stripped of nutrients (they spoil) and «fortified» with all manner of industrial waste masquerading as nutrients.
But because a pipeline hadn't yet been built, the manager decided to start drawing free water from the Flint River, which had long been tainted by farm runoff, sewage and decades of industrial waste.
From 1957 to 1962 large amounts of industrial waste, including millions of gallons of chromic, hydrofluoric, nitric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acids, dichromate, cyanide, and carbon tetrachloride, were deposited into this landfill.
When she isn't trying to close the loop of industrial waste streams she is making conceptual art about being apart of the Eritrean Diaspora.
In the series, iridescent pigments and collage debris are used and conjure the reflective nature of industrial waste.
Generating plants that recycle energy must be near thermal users or near sources of industrial waste energy.
Chapter 4 addresses the energy supply sector, including carbon capture and storage; Chapter 5 transport and associated infrastructures; Chapter 6 the residential, commercial and service sectors; Chapter 7 the industrial sector, including internal recycling and the reuse of industrial wastes; Chapters 8 and 9 the agricultural and forestry sectors, respectively, including land use and biological carbon sequestration; Chapter 10 waste management, post-consumer recycling and reuse.
This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.
The 21.1 MW ground - mount installation is comprised of 78,144 Kyocera solar modules and was developed on the land of an industrial waste disposal facility, which was abandoned and later repurposed for the renewable energy project.
Taken on March 22nd, this photo of industrial waste from a textile dyeing factory draining into the Yangtze is a partial answer.
He says the Onondagas» concerns continue to lie in the fact that 80 to 90 percent of industrial waste, dumped by various companies over the years, still lines the west shore of what was once called the most polluted lake in the country.
At stake here isn't just a two day Naval exercise, but a far larger issue: providing sufficient industry stimulus to encourage private investment in the biofuel industry, especially technologies that don't rely on food crops and arable farm lands, but the more efficient use of industrial waste and promising algael fuels.
That is because more than 80 percent of their industrial waste is carbon dioxide; by contrast, the figure is less than 20 percent in the power plants, said Wang Yongsheng, engineer of Shenhua's carbon capture and storage project.
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