Sentences with phrase «of waste streams»

E-waste is a difficult problem when it comes to keeping it out of waste streams.

Household waste is collected separately, based on of a variety of waste streams like organic waste, paper and cardboard and small chemical waste.

A classic example is the first commercial biorefinery in the world Changing World Technologies which make oil from a variety of waste streams.

FranklinTill and Dutch Invertuals teamed up on an exhibition exploring the future material potential of waste streams.

Supermarket retailers like Whole Foods and Mom's Organic Market accept a variety of waste streams for recycling in - store.

So what we are now doing is, considering, when we start talking about waste streams as energy sources, we are basically driving the treatment of these waste streams from the energy which is produced from within these streams.

This is the first commercial biorefinery in the world that can make oil from a variety of waste streams.»

We are proud to announce a figure of zero to landfill which we feel is an achievement worth publicising, however we also believe there is more that can be done and in the coming years we will strive to get even more value out of waste streams.»

The NHS's sprawling network creates a diverse and complex set of waste streams.

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).

We use fruit not perfect enough for the fresh market, which keeps that fruit out of the waste stream.

Food waste is the single largest component of our waste stream — which means reducing it must be a key part of any strategy to get to zero waste.

Companies across sectors have a difficult time measuring exactly how much of their waste stream is organic material and further understanding of how much of it is good, nutritious food that could go to those in need or be turned into energy or composted, as opposed to being sent to landfill.

Food waste represents the largest component of our waste stream and therefore the greatest opportunity for reduction.

In the United States, EPA estimates that more food reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material in our everyday trash, about 21 percent of the waste stream.

there must be some material that is part of the waste stream of some other manufacturing process that could become a component, and perhaps a biodegradable one at that, of disposables.

Getting organic material — food, yard waste, etc. — out of the waste stream has become paramount for the de Blasio administration.

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.

«Stemming the Tide of Plastic Marine Litter: A Global Action Agenda,» the Emmett Center's most recent Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Brief, documents the devastating effects of plastic marine litter, detailing how plastic forms a large portion of our waste stream and typically does not biodegrade in marine environments.

Cell phones are also quickly becoming part of the waste stream.

Filled with yarns made from recycled plastic bottles, each pillow made helps to keep water bottles out of the waste stream.

I have started an album on my facebook page showing creative ways to keep trash out of the waste stream.

Before trying to determine the contents of the waste stream and the feasibility of diversion the author explores the historical basis of landfilling and why it continues today to be the method of choice.

Trying to determine the contents of the waste stream one finds the need first to understand what is involved in landfilling and why it continues to be the method of choice.

In addition finding and creating markets for products and transportation costs limit the economic viability of waste stream diversion especially in rural areas as opposed to urban areas.

The need is to create markets for other elements of the waste stream to provide an economic, or social incentive, to divert them into another life as a raw material, conserving landfill space.

Having established then an idea of what part of the waste stream is paper fiber being land filled we can then explore the advantages and disadvantages of using paper fiber as an energy source (fuel) by comparing it to coal, the fuel of choice.

The City of Toledo «Recycling Fleet» could still go around every other week and collect only the Plastic and Metal portion of the waste stream identified in the 2003 state of Ohio study, previously cited, as consisting together of 20 % of the trash by weight and 32 % by volume.

Suggesting a source separation method of waste stream diversion, and trying to build a convincing economic argument for source separation has been a challenge because there is plenty of evidence that it appears no one is presently interested.

If we start to envision the landfill only as the destination of last resort, we can then envision at least part of the waste stream becoming product (s).

Knowing from the Waste Characterization Study (26) that 41 % by weight and 44 percent by volume is the paper fiber portion of the waste stream at Hoffman Road, and then assuming a rate of recovery at 30 percent of 156,029 tons, equals 46,808 possible tons of PEF annually.

Concerns for personal economic interest in maintaining the «status quo» may work to the detriment of the «bigger picture» of waste stream diversion.

The Paper Fiber Processing Company needs to be able to accept delivery of the waste stream material, and turn it into a product ready for the local market in a timely fashion.

Makower: You're working with Waste Management on a number of innovations that involve taking things out of the waste stream and turning them into usable assets in the way the circular economy should function.

The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.

«Organic waste makes up a significant percentage of the waste stream.»

Greener Computing reminds us of an important step in combating e-waste - reuse - through the announcement of the International e-Waste Competition at University of Illinois, which offers $ 20,000 in prize money for smart ways to reuse e-waste or otherwise keep electronics out of the waste stream.

For the area, food waste represents about 12 % of the waste stream, and food - contaminated paper another 10 %, so the potential for waste diversion from landfills is huge.

Food waste makes up about 20 percent of our waste stream, and when it's bagged and tossed in the landfill it leaks methane, a gas that is 21 times more destructive to the ozone than carbon dioxide, according to the EPA.

Not exact matches

«TerraCycle demonstrates the ability to engage manufacturers, retailers and, most importantly, millions of consumers in recycling otherwise non-recyclable waste streams,» said Joseph Quarin, the president and CEO of Progressive Waste Solutions.

Hopefully, one of the world's large plastic bottling companies will snatch up this cool modification and help give plastic bottles a new purpose that will remove them permanently from the waste stream.

In addition to representing 17 percent of the total waste stream, food decomposing in landfills produces methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.

While its plants purify 9.5 million cubic metres of waste water annually, they also generate a revenue stream for the company.

In some cities, like San Antonio, Texas, Waste Management simply closed its plants; in other cities, the company is auditing waste streams and strictly enforcing years - old contract agreements with cities that commit to not going above a certain percentage of contamination.

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.

The idea is to accelerate the development of breakthrough technologies that can take waste carbon dioxide streams from industrial facilities, and turn them into valuable and useful items, from t - shirts to toothpaste.

Left in the wake of this destruction are polluted streams and sludge ponds filled with millions of gallons of toxic waste.

It requires, in the end, a grand work of the Holy Spirit to dredge from the dogged channels of our minds the waste quietly expelled for decades into the flowing stream by those very shore establishments whose useful products have made us what we are.

From the perspective of mainland energy recovery operators, it is stated that «Brexit could lead to a reduction in waste streams in their installations and therefore a decrease in the production of sustainable raw materials and renewable energy.»