Sentences with phrase «on plant waste»

In an effort to help resolve this long - standing problem, a group of MIT students has devised a microbial fuel cell (MFC) that runs entirely on plant waste.

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Not only will they have a dramatic effect on the mood and productivity of your employees, as well as on overall aesthetic impression in your offices, but plant waste can be used as an organic fertilizer.

From the collection and packaging of waste materials and management of satellite accumulation areas, to complete in - plant cleaning or running your RCRA treatment processes — Clean Harbors on - site staffs are solely dedicated to servicing your site by leveraging all of our capabilities and developing the safest and most cost - effective solutions for our customers.

Ontario has already wasted billions on natural gas - fired power plants that were never built and could potentially squander billions more refurbishing aging nuclear stations in a bid to prop up the province's atomic industry.

Indeed, Durham Region is currently building a new waste to energy plant that will come on - line in late 2014.

There is a new emphasis on Plant - based and Origin Foods that utilize plant protein, insects, food waste, or origin foods and provenPlant - based and Origin Foods that utilize plant protein, insects, food waste, or origin foods and provenplant protein, insects, food waste, or origin foods and provenance.

As the population of lactobacilli grows, it feeds on the natural sugars in the plant juices and produces lactic acid as its waste product.

The RAPTOR ® portion of the plant involves an innovative twist on traditional anaerobic digestion, designed to maximize the energy generation from specific wastes.

Nicholas Meat's new facilities will be designed to recover both energy and water from waste products generated on site and significantly reduce the impact of the beef and veal processing plant on the local community.

The waste water treatment and green energy plant at the $ 120 million Pacific Beverages» Bluetongue Brewery in NSW also provides valuable renewable energy for the brewery, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs by 15 per cent.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

A: Working towards food waste reduction is a highly collaborative effort and we need to continue to work together to ensure we maximize the use of food either on the farm, in the manufacturing plant, or at home.

on Latest global waste - to - energy plant shows Australasian meat companies how to turn production residuals into an energy - generating resource

The Global Water Engineering (GWE) anaerobic digestion technologies — to be featured on Stand S9 — extract biogas from virtually any biological waste stream, including municipal food wastes from restaurants, food service facilities, grocery stores, and municipal solid waste, as well as organic wastes from industrial processing facilities, food and beverage plants and agribusinesses.

Executive Director Alison Field - Juma states, «OARS looks forward to working with Mass Audubon to educate the public about how to create a more climate - resilient landscape on their own property through better stormwater management, pet waste disposal, and increasing native plantings.

Shedd Aquarium is teaming up with Chicagoland restaurants on World Oceans Day, June 8, to decrease Chicago's contribution of plastic waste that winds up in our oceans and negatively impacts marine animals and plants.

On his part, the Chief Executive Officer of Pureco Limited, Mr Balint Horvath, said his company was specialized in design and construction of Sewerage and waste water treatment plants, as well as solid waste recycling plants.

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.

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

«Amazingly, though, the governor is simultaneously pursuing a plan to waste billions of dollars on a corporate bailout to keep aging, unprofitable nuclear plants open upstate.»

City Comptroller Scott Stringer faulted the prevalence of sewer treatment plants, waste transfer stations and depots in poorer communities on long - standing city policy to place them near water.

In the meantime, highly radioactive waste is being stored on - site in spent fuel pools at each nuclear plant, with 1500 tons of waste are currently stored at Indian Point.

From the # 90,000 wasted on pot plants in the Department of Transport to over twelve billion wasted on the NHS computer they don't think twice about splashing your cash.

But Sustainable, which is working on a system that turns animal or plant waste into fuel to power equipment, is doing all its construction and testing at space its leasing from a power tool company in Saugerties.

ALLEGANY TERRITORY, Salamanca, NY July 5, 2013 - SCMC, LLC, a construction management firm wholly - owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians, was recently awarded a $ 2.7 million contract with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to upgrade a waste water treatment plant on its premises.

SCMC, LLC, a construction management firm wholly - owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians, was recently awarded a $ 2.7 million contract with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to upgrade a waste water treatment plant on its premises.

During his Peconic Landing appearance and at a recent Village Board meeting, the mayor made the case for his re-election, saying his administration has made substantial progress on upgrading its waste water treatment plant and is about to embark on upgrades to the electric department.

Speaking on Indian Point, Maloney stated that the plant should and would be closed, with its operations transferred over the course of five to seven years, preserving and creating jobs throughout the transfer, and providing for waste storage.

And to any naysayers out there concerned about the scope of a project planted on former waste beds, along a lake that was once the most polluted in the country, Mahoney's willing to listen... to a point.

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.

He adds that Renewable Energy Solutions has spent «a fair amount of money» on pre-engineering a second plant, which will probably be located near Longmont, Colorado, and process both turkey and cattle slaughterhouse waste.

In 2014 Perry asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to examine letting the state store higher - level commercial waste that — as in the other states hosting privately run reactors — now sits at the plants where it is generated.

But switching to an energy economy based entirely on reformed waste will be a long process, requiring the construction of thousands of thermal depolymerization plants.

«You don't have to waste energy on all the extra baggage it takes to grow plants, and the result is a man - made carbon cycle that produces liquid fuel.»

That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is «contaminated» with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.

«If we know the chemical composition of the nuclear waste coming out from those plants, we can definitely work on it.»

The prickly plants also absorb nitrates, which means they can be grown on waste ground or in garbage dumps.

From termites to blue whales, virtually all life on Earth depends on plants» ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food — and without the waste product, oxygen, you would be dead in minutes.

There is also little incentive for companies to try to license and develop new low - level waste sites, because nuclear plants, which generate most of that waste, have managed to dramatically reduce their volume and store more on site, according to Todd Lovinger, executive director of the Low - Level Radioactive Waste Forum, a nonprofit that is helping state compacts comply with the low - level waste law.

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

In a new article, researchers from Aarhus University describe how the waste left by ants on plant leaves serves as a valuable fertiliser for the plants — handed on a silver platter.

But such simple steps as leaving slash — the plant waste left over after crop production — on fields after harvests, so it could be incorporated into the soil, could reintroduce between 0.4 and 1.1 gigatons of carbon annually to soil, the study says.

They envision zero - carbon power plants that run on fuel made from hydrogen isotopes in seawater and produce less waste than today's nuclear power plants.

For example, if the evidence shows that effluents from municipal water treatment, from animal manure, or from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are selecting for antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment, that may justify treatment of such waste streams prior to application on croplands.

Hochella and his team found these previously unknown nanoparticles not only in coal ash from around the world and in the gaseous waste emissions of coal plants, but on city streets, in soils and storm water ponds, and at wastewater treatment plants.

In one of his more intriguing passages on biological systems, he notes that humanity has failed to realize that «operation of natural ecosystems is exemplary,» in that their processing of organic waste gives rise to a new generation of plants.

It centres on a computer model they developed to compare the carbon emissions that would be saved by converting the world's available supplies of plant waste into either biofuel or biochar.

This means that the plants do not waste energy on unproductive shoots.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

Over 100 nuclear plants in 16 countries rely on Holtec's casks and canisters to store and transport their nuclear waste.