Sentences with phrase «of the solid waste stream»

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The American Institute of Architects believes building - related waste makes up anywhere from 25 % to 40 % of America's solid - waste stream.

Clean Harbors can safely and efficiently dispose of bulk and drum hazardous and non-hazardous liquids, solids and sludge waste streams associated with any size project.

U.S. communities and states that have implemented alternatives to extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies are achieving high municipal solid waste recycling rates at reasonable costs, while also addressing a wider spectrum of the waste stream than narrowly - focused EPR mandates, according to a new study conducted by consulting firm SAIC for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

Primarily, this investment will see a doubling of office space with increased storage facilities and the development of a new purpose - built laboratory for Research and Development (R&D) with three state - of - the - art pilot plants, which will test and trial pre - and post-treatment liquid and solid organic waste streams, to ensure optimal anaerobic digester performance.

Wegner: Clearly, the use of multiple materials and light weighting of flexible packaging has challenged the current infrastructures and technologies of our municipal solid waste streams.

By harnessing both of its organic waste streams — contained in waste water and organic solids — the company is setting world green energy and water purity benchmarks for food processing, says Pascal Pipyn, Executive Vice President, Process and Research and Development for GWE, who represented GWE at the inauguration.

Initiating a winery - wide single - stream recycling program, and installing a plastic bailer resulting in a 62 % reduction of the winery's solid waste going to landfills in the first year.

The liquid concentrate constitutes a small wastewater stream, recycled to add to the fresh solid waste in the slurry - making stage, or recycled to a TAR pre-treatment, disposed of in a conventional anaerobic / aerobic or aerobic wastewater treatment plant, or treated in a dedicated wastewater treatment plant (RO - concentration / evaporator).

Incinerated municipal solids and other waste streams results in a significant amount of ash residue, which often contains valuable metals.

In a plant - wide effort to minimize all solid waste streams, the team was able to realize an annualized savings of 127 tons of solid waste, or 330 percent of the 2020 goal in fiscal 2014 alone.

Currently 16 billion diapers weighing 3 million tons create 2 % of the entire US solid waste stream.

Rethinking Waste focuses on how to decrease the generation of solid waste and increase what is taken out of the waste stream through recycling and reuse.

One facility in Utashinai, Japan, has been doing just that since 2003, using plasma — an electrically induced stream of hot, charged particles — to process up to 220 tons of municipal solid waste a day.

In the municipal waste stream, plastic and Styrofoam comprise about 19 % of the volume, and therefore 19 % of the cost of national solid waste management.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Web site states: «Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream.»

The farm's owners knew that restoring the composting operation using a more efficient, multi-stage solids - separating system was the best way to take full advantage of the nutrients in the waste stream while significantly reducing the environmental threat posed by manure decomposition and nutrient run - off, but needed investment to install the new equipment.

«We're working with members of the coal industry and state agencies that are engaged in treating AMD (acid mine drainage) solids to sample their waste streams, said Paul Ziemkiewicz, the lead researcher who heads the West Virginia University's (WVU) research with colleagues Xingbo Liu and Aaron Noble at its Water Research Institute in Morgantown.

Once removed from a building, they often become part of the municipal solid waste stream and contribute to air, land, and water contamination.

In addition to this, yard trimmings and food waste, combined, make up 24 percent of our nation's municipal solid waste stream.

As North American Program Manager for Solid Waste & Recycling, Daniel Gilbert has over 20 years of experience in managing material recovery, processing, disposal, recycling and reuse programs for all types of commodities and waste streams.

Industrial activities currently generate nearly 7.6 billion tons of solid waste in the U.S. each year, 3,000 % of the total municipal waste generated by Americans annually; on the other hand, electronic waste is currently the fastest growing solid waste stream, growing two to three times faster than any other waste stream.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].