Sentences with phrase «other industrial waste»

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

Not exact matches

Helping industrial clients safely burn methane and other waste gases — the main byproducts being CO2 and water — has been the focus of Questor's business since 1994.

Reducing waste at source, channeling excess food to hungry people, using it for animal feed, employing it for other industrial uses and composting were preferable to landfill, she said.

Unfortunately, mining, waste incineration, and other industrial processes release unsafe quantities of mercury into the environment.

The Tema Chemu Lagoon has served as an industrial sink through which almost all the major industries including textiles, oil industries among other companies channel their waste into the sea over the years.

Please note, items NOT accepted are: latex paint, automobile tires, computers and other electronics, appliances, pharmaceuticals, fluorescent bulbs and commercial / industrial wastes.

In addition to these three properties, Investigative Post reported last July that state and federal officials in 1979 identified dozens of other residential and commercial properties — most in Niagara County — contaminated with what they believe is radioactive industrial waste.

Residents are warned that they can NOT bring these items: latex paint, automobile tires, computers and other electronics, appliances, pharmaceuticals, fluorescent bulbs or commercial / industrial waste.

Andreassen and others anticipate that a large chunk of the world's agricultural, industrial, and municipal waste may someday go into thermal depolymerization machines scattered all over the globe.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

Thermal salt - removing processes require high temperatures so they tend to be expensive (more than $ 1 per cubic meter of freshwater), but the use of rejected «waste» heat from other industrial or power plant operations for co-generation can cut energy expenditure.

Over the following decades other treaties expanded the regulations, culminating in a 1993 amendment to the London Dumping Convention that halted the ocean disposal of all radioactive waste and in a 1995 amendment to the Basel Convention that banned the deposition of the industrial world's lethal excreta in developing countries.

Worse, e-waste is growing faster than any other type of trash the EPA regulates, including medical and industrial waste.

In addition to traditional asphalt concrete and cement concrete, the researchers also assessed several other material alternatives, such as reflective coatings and the use of industrial waste products like slag and fly ash, to replace some of the energy - intensive cement in cement concrete.

Most wells are around the Great Lakes and in areas where oil and gas is produced: along the Appalachian crest and the Gulf Coast, in California and in Texas, which has more wells for hazardous industrial waste and oil and gas waste than any other state.

In January 2013 Tom returned to the group as the Technical Liaison Officer for the newly established Industrial Engagement Facility on the WasteValor project — helping turn food industry wastes into raw materials for other processes.

Other contaminants that we need to be mindful of are pharmaceutical drugs and medicines, sewage leaks and industrial wastes.

On the other you have dirty water that contains plastics, hormones and all sorts of other human and industrial waste, much of which can not be filtered out by municipal water treatment facilities.

For non-organic food, it is not uncommon to use recycled industrial waste, from steel mill and the like, which contain lead and other heavy metals, to make fertilizer.

Heavy metals are the most common of the reprotoxicants reaching our water supply through industrial waste, jet fuel exhaust residue, and a variety of other sources.

Synthetic forms of fluoride are a byproduct of nuclear and industrial waste and there was also cooperation between these industries on how to get rid of the waste... result is they add it to water and in other countries add it to the salt.

The artist focused much of his attention to felt, which he piled, stacked and hung from the wall in order to test its abilities, along with other industrial raw materials such as dirt and thread waste.

But if we replace these sources of energy with others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of turning everything on earth into toxic waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any human time scale).

Dr. Bullard has authored numerous books on the prominence of waste facilities in predominately African - American areas all over the nation, as well as others that address urban land use, industrial facility siting, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and equity.

When it comes to strategies that help your garden grow, adding compost is a great way to mulch and add nutrients without using industrial fertilizers (not to mention a good use of food leftovers and other organic waste).

It comprises waste material, products, residues, and byproducts from agriculture, plants, manure, and industrial wastes, among other materials.

These best case figures Don't include processing the full range of biomass waste products available, from landfill biomass, sewage, food processing residues, forestry and woodworking residues, other agricultural residues, and industrial biomass residues, etc..

A major driver in these efficiency gains has been our increased investment in cogeneration — a technology enabling us to capture heat generated from electricity production that is otherwise wasted, and use it in other industrial processes.

Note that the «Net emissions / removals» mean «total emissions» in the case of sectors including energy, industrial processes, solvent and other product use, agriculture and waste while it refers to «net emissions / removals» for LULUCF and Other secother product use, agriculture and waste while it refers to «net emissions / removals» for LULUCF and Other secOther sectors.

The paper's authors note that these industrial waste products have other potential benefits: they contain metals, for instance, that could be «mined» from them.

Wood, Wood Waste, Other Solid Waste: Covers purpose - grown energy crops (poplar, willow etc.), a multitude of woody materials generated by an industrial process (wood / paper industry in particular) or provided directly by forestry and agriculture as well as wastes such as straw, rice husks, crushed grape dregs etc..

It built a combined heat and power plant to use tree waste from the city's parks, industrial wood waste, and wood from other sources.

Shrimp shells and other seafood waste generally goes into the waste stream, but exoskeletons from shellfish have multiple potential industrial uses.

Project activities can include but are not limited to: transportation; combined heat and power; energy; livestock and agricultural; waste and wastewater; industrial sector; sequestration, including wood product substitution; and other activities on a technology - neutral basis.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said emissions decreased one per cent in the six months to December 2012 — the period since the introduction of the carbon price — for the major sectors covered by the scheme — electricity, other stationary energy, fugitives, industrial process emissions and waste.

In recent years, the European Union introduced carbon incentives to industries replacing coal with so - called clean green sources such as medical waste, old tires, and other industrial residue.

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.

The letter explains why large - scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so - called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community - based land rights and will worsen climate change.

The waste feedstocks for the process will most likely come from a mixture of sources ranging from food scraps and other household material such as grass and tree cuttings, to agricultural and industrial waste.

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.

The table below shows data compiled by the International Energy Agency, which estimates carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of coal, natural gas, oil and other fuels, including industrial waste and non-renewable municipal waste.

Comprehensive policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from sources other than energy, for example waste, industrial emissions, fugitives, land - use change, deforestation and agriculture.

This approach can be extended to a complete industrial ecosystem, e.g. recycling «waste» outputs from industrial and agricultural processes as feedstock or energy inputs for other industries and users - cascading and integrating to increase overall materials and energy efficiency, and, where possible topping up with renewables to drive the system.

«You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history.

Other chapters in this volume address pre-consumer GHG emissions from waste within the industrial (Chapter 7) and energy (Chapter 4) sectors which are managed within those respective sectors.

Acting for food production businesses, transport operators, manufacturing and engineering businesses and other commercial operators in the successful appeals of numerous abatement notices for statutory nuisances arising from diverse sources including food odours, industrial noise, odours from waste operations, dog barking, church bells and fireworks.

His experience in these areas has covered a wide array of industries and products including numerous chemicals, food production / food poisoning, building and waste materials, industrial manufacturing, and others.

While the team is spread across the UK, the London branch consists of, among others, construction and regulatory expert Sarah Thomas, who specialises in infrastructure projects including waste water treatment, water management and industrial outsourcing schemes; department head Adrian Eakin, who is currently advising an infrastructure fund on the development of a desalination facility in Southern Europe; and consultant Mark Lane, who formerly headed the department and has extensive experience.

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