Sentences with phrase «of virgin materials»

«Using recycled or renewable materials in lieu of petroleum - based materials allows Ford to minimize the amount of virgin materials used in the Focus Electric.»

Countries such as China are prepared to pay high prices for recyclables such as waste plastic; mainly because they do not have readily available sources of virgin materials (no indigenous forests or oil supplies) and they have a large manufacturing industry that requires these products.

As the chief executive of Patagonia, Rose Marcario says, «We are living in a world where there are going to be fewer resources, and there won't always be a wealth of virgin materials.

From the most basic environmental point of view, all materials are worth recycling, because this reduces the need for energy - intensive mining and smelting of virgin materials.

If the product were made of excessive packaging that used a lot of virgin materials, it would get a red dot.

It requires less mining of virgin material to be used in the manufacturing process and reduces the amount of batteries consumers need to power their devices, which results in less waste.

Not exact matches

The virgin who for nine months has been weaving the veil of the temple out of the material of her own body sits in stupefied and exhausted silence.

Unilever has announced a partnership with start - up company Ioniqa and the largest global producer of PET resin Indorama Ventures to pioneer a new technology which converts PET waste back into virgin grade material for use in food packaging.

The inner layer uses virgin material to minimize the migration of impurities into the filled product.

In collaboration with Barry Callebaut, the world's leading manufacturer of high - quality cocoa and chocolate products, the Cocoa Paper substitutes virgin fibre and materials to create a strong and naturally coloured fibre suitable for food packaging, while also avoiding wasting the cocoa shells.

Unilever is entering into a new partnership with the aim of developing a technology to convert plastic PET waste back into virgin grade material for use in food packaging.

Medela only uses new, virgin materials in manufacturing of all products.

There is almost too much here to take in: tax incentives, export controls, forestry policy, waste reduction and recycling proposals, CO2 taxes, electrical co-generation, virgin materials fees... There is even a discussion of energy - saving light bulbs and how to market them more efficiently.

The next step is the mixing; this stage consists of creating a uniform mix of virgin uranium oxide powder (UO2) and the clean recycled material (U3O8), normally a pore - former.

A lot of sites encouraging people to use coconut oil for oily skin suggest extra virgin coconut oil as the best option, because it undergoes limited processing and is as close to the raw material as we can get.

It seems apropos, somehow, of current pop - culture attitudes thatThe 40 Year - Old Virgin, hyped as a raunchy R - rated alternative to PG - 13 comedies, would have such a love / hate relationship with explicit material.

With two power house comedians at the helm, one would expect a more solid slate of material to let them run wild with, ala The 40 - Year - Old Virgin & Mean Girls.

By 1985, Madonna was not only a chart - topping global force, she was a show - stopping performer, revealing her cinematic potential in the video for «Material Girl,» with its nod to Marilyn Monroe's «Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend» sequence from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as well as her controversial performance of «Like A Virgin» at the 1984 VMAs, in which a white wedding dress - clad, «BOY TOY» belt - bearing Madge writhed around the stage floor like the future Queen of All Media everyone (primarily she) thought she might become.

The comprehensive exhibition was specially dedicated to Rhoades's body of work using PeaRoeFoam, the artist's self - made recipe for a «brand new product and revolutionary new material» created from whole green peas, fish - bait style salmon eggs, and white virgin - beaded foam.

Building on this process, how do you describe your current interactions with cinema / film / video, the stuff animals, and the audio manipulations in relationship to your earlier exploitations of pristine (virgin) objects and materials?

Her breast is fashioned from elephant dung, and the canvas is propped on two lumps of the same scatological material, one inscribed with the word «Virgin» and the other «Mary.»

There, Ofili's 1996 painting The Holy Virgin Mary became an object of extreme contention; like most of his paintings at the time, it used elephant dung as one of its materials.

Changing the perception of «single - use» plastics (and all plastics, for that matter) is needed to create and strengthen systems that will capture these materials for recycling, divert them from landfills, and decrease virgin production in lieu of more regenerative resource structures.

This young company proves how unnecessary virgin materials are when we've got an ocean full of plastic that can be recycled.

Their use of virgin wood fiber is going down, as they reduce packaging and use more recycled materials.

Using recycled plastic to make new products saves 66 percent of the energy over using virgin material

-- The Administrator shall determine an entity or group of entities to be a subsector of a six - digit section of the NAICS code based only upon the products manufactured and not the industrial process by which the products are manufactured, except that the Administrator may determine an entity or group of entities that manufacture a product from primarily virgin material to be a separate subsector from another entity or group of entities that manufacture the same product primarily from recycled material.

Our materials can be used for a variety of products, adding an eco-friendly and affordable alternative to virgin resources.

The big challenge is for cities to recycle the many components of garbage and for industry to produce easily - disassembled and recycled goods, since recycling uses only a fraction of the energy of producing the same items from virgin raw materials.

Advanced industrial economies with stable populations, such as those in Europe and Japan, can rely primarily on the stock of materials already in the economy rather than using virgin raw materials.

The LCA informed decision - makers that the use of recovered materials (zinc, magnesium and steel) in batteries (to avoid virgin extraction) yields the most environmental and economic savings.

The big challenge in cities everywhere is to recycle the many components of garbage, since recycling uses only a fraction of the energy of producing the same items from virgin raw materials.

By focusing on turning trash into treasure, Pentatonic aims to demonstrate a better way forward for home furnishings than the standard of using virgin materials to create relatively short - lived products.

This not only keeps landfills from overflowing but it also displaces some of the need for virgin materials from non-renewable resources (petroleum, old - growth forests, etc.).

And these same yoga accessories that are meant to improve our personal lives might actually have the opposite effect our environment, considering that many of them are made with virgin materials that are not only nonrenewable in nature, but are also made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and include other undesirables such as phthalates, lead, and cadmium, and are not the easiest things to recycle at the end of their lives.

According to the UK - based designers, who have done some math to calculate the savings that comes from recycling plastic rather than using virgin materials, the energy savings of the design in comparison to a virgin alternative equates to powering a 60 Watt light bulb for 1483 hours of continuous use — wow!

By reclaiming some of the battery materials (zinc, manganese and steel, for instance), fewer virgin materials are needed, which can offset part of the environmental impact of resource extraction.

Much like our old friend bamboo, it seems that cardboard can be used as a replacement for many conventional materials, without chopping down trees or otherwise using virgin materials, and usually incorporates a good deal of recycled material.

But after writing our post on China's ban on accepting plastic waste, Junkyard Planet author Adam Minter noted that instead, Chinese manufacturers were importing, digging or chopping for virgin materials to make up for the loss of supply.

We previously reported that the reuse of 1 tonne of cotton clothing only uses 2.6 % of the energy required to manufacture them from virgin materials.

While we didn't have stacks of virgin printed materials to contend with, we received a CD packed with press releases and miscellaneous Word documents; a DVD with demo videos of the washer and dryer; plus another DVD, this time for the dishwasher, inexplicably shrinkwrapped together with a one - page flyer and a backing board.

Before joining Davis Polk, Mr. Witty advised on the international IPOs and listings of Yell, eircom, Premier Foods, Virgin Mobile, Inmarsat, Britvic, QinetiQ, Experian, Home Retail Group, Hochschild Mining, Hansard Global, Petroplus Holdings, Sepura, Telecity Group, Namakwa Diamonds, Promethean World and AZ Electronic Materials SA.

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Our «Virgin» materials were the hit of the conference, and they simply couldn't keep their giveaway Virgin mugs in stock.