Sentences with phrase «organic waste produced»

Meanwhile, over 95 per cent of high quality organic waste produced in Milan is collected.

Not exact matches

Detroit Dirt picks up organic waste from the area, composts it and then sells the dirt for growing produce within the city.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

I opt for Imperfect Produce's organic box each week in the hopes that I am contributing less to the use of chemicals and pesticides in agricultural use, and getting the rescued vegetables box each week makes me optimistic that I am helping to alleviate food waste in the United States.

Through a unique process known worldwide as the BIDA ® System, our biofiltration technology is capable of producing water suitable for irrigation from waste water sources contaminated with organic solids and nutrients.

«This world - class technology — which can be applied globally by all community - minded companies with organic waste and wastewater streams — produces both green energy to supplant fossil fuel needs as well as delivering high quality treated wastewater to safeguard community water standards.

High - temperature thermophilic anaerobic digestion technologies, typically operating at 55 deg C, are part of a combination of processes that digest waste water's organic content to produce green energy (methane) while achieving outstanding waste water effluent qualities.

COHRAL (TM) technology — which is applicable to both livestock and cropping operations — uses concentrated anaerobic bacteria to digest 70 per cent of the organic matter (COD, or Chemical Oxygen demand) in Oakey Abattoir's waste water to produce effluent of far high quality than typical open lagoons.

Microbes feed on the waste, oxidizing the organic substances and producing a small amount of electricity.

Investigators in Shandong, China, recently discovered a new method to convert this organic waste matter into a porous carbon material that can be used to produce high - tech electronics.

In this process, the organisms can produce hydrocarbon - based fuels from organic waste.

«The positive response from customers about recycling is also a big bonus,» said Martinez, whose 50 - seat restaurant produces only about five tons of organic waste per year.

But such a device is relatively inefficient, says Bruce Logan at Pennsylvania State University in University Park: as the organic content in the waste water falls, the voltage produced by the bacteria drops and pulls fewer ions out of the saline water, leaving it with a salty tang.

Communal facilities often use these wastes to produce biogas and process the final residue into organic fertilizer.

Adapted to their very hot but watery environment, these microbes metabolized hydrogen - rich compounds or dead or live organic materials to derive the energy that sustains anaerobic life, including sulfate - reducing bacteria that produce Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), fermentative bacteria that produce carbon dioxide and alcohol -LRB-- OH), and methanogenic bacteria — the methanogens found in sewage and mudflats today — that produce methane (CH4) gas as a waste product.

These earthworms improve the aerating your soil and the waste products they produce serves as the most organic matter that makes your soil healthy and fertile

the only way to cut corners is to use conventional produce over organic and to extend the shelf life to make distribution and waste management easier.

Leo Studio Design in Puglia, the «heel» of Italy's «boot», has produced backpacks and shoes made from Econyl, a yarn made from nylon waste, and a printed skirt made from organic cotton that was grown with no pesticides or fertilisers.

The bacteria produces its own enzyme that breaks down organic waste.

At the base of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, the district feeds a mix of sludge, commercial food scraps, and other organic waste into an array of 12 gigantic anaerobic digesters that produce methane, also called biogas.

About half of that waste comes from food scraps and other organic materials, producing methane and other greenhouse gases as it decomposes.

Liquid and gaseous fuels can be produced from firewood and other organic matter, for example garden waste and shit.

Firstly, a growing city will produce more and more wastewater and organic wastes.

In many cities, local or municipal initiatives exist to collect household waste and organic refuse from vegetable markets and agro-industries in order to produce compost or animal feed, but one can also find urban farmers who use fresh organic waste (which may cause environmental and health problems).

89 Until we get zero waste, however, the methane (natural gas) produced in existing landfills as organic materials in buried garbage decompose can also be tapped to produce industrial process heat or to generate electricity in combined heat and power plants.

Most countries will have some no - regrets options (e.g. producing biogas for heat from organic waste) which can be implemented quickly and bring multiple, additional benefits.

RNG, a 100 per cent renewable energy source, is natural gas currently produced from organic waste from farms, forests, landfills, and water treatment plants.

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R - CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste....

Industrial wastes and other organic materials could easily be gasified to both produce electricity and fuel as well as to eliminate some of the land area needed for landfills — land area that could be used for other things, like harvesting plant biomass.

About a third of the waste New Yorkers produce — over 1 million pounds - is organic.

Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is a type of biofuel produced from organic matter like corn, sugarcane, grasses, agricultural waste, and even garbage.

Projects working to preserve the forest by increasing the use of alternative fuels — such as methane gas produced from organic waste — for heat also help relieve women of the burden of gathering firewood from many miles away.

We foresee a smaller city where you may eat organic vegetables that grow locally, [one that] has homes that do not produce waste, but instead conserve energy, and [where] public transportation is primary.

Some of the things I plan to focus on as a result of the course include: Have a zero balance on my credit cards; Shed excess clutter and clothing (donate to homeless shelter, etc.); Select organic produce as often as possible and buy smaller amounts to prevent waste; Become self - sufficient in the basics of life such as growing more food in my garden - move from gardening as a hobby to a sustainable food source; Buy local by ordering a «farm box» twice a month; I also plan to decrease spending — buy only what I need, not everything I think I want.

A microbial fuel cell uses the electrons that are released from bacteria as they feed on organic waste to produce electricity.

The first large - scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013.

Not only does food waste make no sense in a world of people in need (850,000 Canadians use food banks every month), organic matter, leftovers, «ugly» produce and overstocked foods do not readily degrade unless composted properly, and will mummify in a landfill.

The facility will be built on 10 acres near Lancaster, California and is not expected to begin producing ethanol until late 2009, The location was chosen because of the abundant waste that already passes by the location: An estimated 170 tons of wood chips, grass cuttings, and organic waste each day.

A bio-digester at the facility treats organic waste and produces biogas that is then used to generate up to 30 MW of electricity.

Each day Mexico City produces 5,100 tons of organic waste, 600 of which come from the city's sprawling Central de Abasto, or central marketplace.

After sorting, the organic waste from Tel Aviv's trash is pumped to these biogas digesters where micro-bacteria break down the waste and produce gas, which is used to power Arrow's entire facility.

When bacteria in the landfill eat this type of organic waste, methane is produced, which is a powerful climate - altering, greenhouse gas.