Sentences with phrase «of sewage waste»

The researchers» analysis of sewage waste containing these particles suggests that much of the nanomaterials from these products are likely making their way back into surface water, where they could potentially cause health problems for aquatic life.

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Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

A wide range of resources will be made available on the website including food waste, food for redistribution, industrial organic by - products, agricultural wastes, biodiesel and bioethanol residues, sewage and industrial sludge and wood.

On top of that, the waste from disposable diapers is not properly treated as sewage, so disposable diapers in landfills can be a breeding ground for viruses.

The instructions on a disposable diaper package advice that all fecal matter should be deposited in the toilet before discarding, yet less than one half of one percent of all waste from single - use diapers goes into the sewage system.

The waste is taken care of the way it is meant to, that is, it goes through a sewage treatment center.

Use of disposables raises a concern about solid waste management, while cloth diapers contribute to air and water pollution and possible taxing of municipal water and sewage systems.

My favorite part of all this is that the waste goes where it belongs: either in the laundry water down the drain or in the toilet with the rest of the sewage.

The remaining six sub-sectors reported decline in the following order: management of companies; construction; water supply, sewage & waste management; professional, scientific, & technical services; utilities and real estate, rental & leasing.

«The MoU we have signed today is for the first phase of the project, which include designing and construction of sewage septic waste facility in Kumasi,» he said.

Quick read WORK on the construction of a seven million euros sewage and waste water treatment plants at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region is expected to begin this month and completed in the middle of 2019.

«In a civilized, first world society, even the thought of contaminated water supplies or the environmental implications of waste and sewage spilling into the ground are unfathomable.

Tweet really interesting facts about sewage... Being shadow water and waste minister I shadow a number of Defra ministers.

The bill would ban fracking on county land, bar spraying fracking waste on county roads, and ban transportation of fracking waste to county - owned sewage treatment plants.

As new materials are produced and applied in the agricultural and industrial sectors, the types of contaminants expelled as sewage and waste water are also becoming diverse.

The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges,» the report says.

That's when University of Virginia neuroscientist Jonathan Kipnis and his team discovered a hidden core of vessels — a previously unknown sewage system for draining cellular waste from the brain into the lymph system at large.

Separating urine at the source saves resources that would otherwise be disposed of as waste through expensive sewage treatment systems.

Sewage treatment is the process that removes the majority of the contaminants from waste - water or sewage and produces both a liquid effluent suitable for disposal to the natural environment and a sSewage treatment is the process that removes the majority of the contaminants from waste - water or sewage and produces both a liquid effluent suitable for disposal to the natural environment and a ssewage and produces both a liquid effluent suitable for disposal to the natural environment and a sludge.

They estimate the site contains 200,000 litres of diesel fuel, enough for a car to circle the globe 80 times, and 240,000 litres of waste water, including sewage.

We've really accelerated hydrothermal conversion technology over the last six years to create a continuous, and scalable process which allows the use of wet wastes like sewage sludge.»

Environmentalists inside and outside China warn that the rapidly expanding dam lake is already causing destructive soil erosion and has polluted the river with vast amounts of trapped sewage, agricultural chemicals, and hazardous industrial wastes.

Local governments in Japan have found an unusual way of getting rid of their waste sewage sludge: turning it into paving slabs.

Flushing sewage into rivers is not just an environmental catastrophe, it is also a ludicrous waste of nutrients that could be helping to feed the world.

But urine recycling may never become a part of large - scale farming in industrialized countries, because implementing it would mean drastically remodeling sewage systems in order to collect and transport liquid waste.

«TARP consists of 110 miles of tunnels and reservoirs, which are actually old limestone quarries that capture and hold storm water and raw sewage until it can be treated at waste water treatment plants and discharged into the canals and rivers.»

Nor will any number of environmental impact assessments convince it that dumping oil rigs in the deeps — or sewage sludge or old submarines or nuclear waste — is right.

Human - accelerated eutrophication (known as cultural eutrophication) can be triggered by inputs of sewage, sludge, fertilizers, or other wastes containing nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.

Another source of ocean pollution by sewage - related waste is the disposal of biosolids, a semisolid byproduct of the sewage treatment process, often called sludge.

Ocean disposal of sewage sludge and industrial waste was totally banned after 1991.

While small amounts of sewage can dissipate quickly, the routine dumping of large amounts of human waste has caused long - term harm to many shoreline ecosystems, and rendered many coastal waters unfit for recreational activities.

For example, high numbers of disease - causing viruses and a bacterial species called Escherichia coli can occur in coastal waters influenced by human wastes (e.g., sewage).

sewage sludge Nutrient - rich solid materials pulled out of sewage and other waste waters that have been treated at municipal water - treatment plants.

sewage Wastes — primarily urine and feces — that are mixed with water and flushed away from homes through a system of pipes for disposal in the environment (sometimes after being treated in a big water - treatment plant).

The group recently constructed a prototype of this technology, which utilizes kitchen waste, used newspapers, and sewage to generate electricity.

Other contaminants that we need to be mindful of are pharmaceutical drugs and medicines, sewage leaks and industrial wastes.

SHC moved against dumping of sewage industrial waste at Sea View Seaview Karachi Pakistan.

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«All of what goes down the drain has to be processed in sewage plants or septic tanks, so reducing waste is a worthwhile goal,» he says.

If these operations are even regulated, which many are not, APHIS or a state agency or law enforcement typically turn a blind eye, dithering over their authority to shut them down, pretending these are somehow legitimate «businesses» that should be supported, ignoring that these sleazy operators make their money from animal cruelty and leave communities with unwanted dogs in their shelters, environmental and health hazards from improperly disposed of carcasses and waste, infestation, and wastewater and other sewage problems.

With westerly winds, currents can flow out from the back lagoon towards the reef with drastic increases in suspended sediment This is the first major opening for water exchange from Chetumal Bay, whose water quality is of increasing concern, as it receives wastes from agricultural processing and sewage disposal.

Because of these nuisance characteristics it is not surprising that poop did get all the attention when sewage treatment was introduced a century ago, even tough the pollution caused by human's real waste (urine) is still ignored by many country's water pollution regulations.

The treatment plant handles about 75 million cubic meters of sewage and 35,000 metric tons of food waste each year, effectively turning local waste into local fuel.

Andy: I sent you a pretty detailed essay on how to get the UGLY out of water by appling the pyrolysis process that will destroy germs, toxics and drugs to organic wastes and separated sewage solids.

Adding electricity generation from biogas derived from waste and sewage treatment provides an additional input of carbon - free power while consuming a potent greenhouse gas.

You ought to check with some of sustainability hotshots, whom you have given some coverage to, about the organic waste and sewage messes.

Would you swim in a river ravaged with sewage, oil, and the color of waste?

As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

The main issue I am concerned about is getting the ever - expanding never - ending organic waste and sewage messes of developed countries under control before they bury us.

«Then, of course, there's all the sewage, the chemical and industrial waste and artificial fertiliser that's being washed into the Yangtze, poisoning the water and poisoning the fish.»