Sentences with phrase «other plant waste»

In Beijing alone, about 2 million tonnes of leaves and other plant waste are burned every year.

Not exact matches

The state government has given New Energy Corporation environmental approval for a $ 184 million waste - to - energy plant proposed for Port Hedland, but the company, and other proponents of similar plants

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.

Green Monday is a holistic platform that not only promotes plant - based diet but also encourages partners to incorporate other sustainability initiatives, such as local sourcing, waste reduction, energy conservation and other green outreach.

Prior to the construction of new centre, Ornua Nutrition Ingredients used to send offcuts and waste cheese from the Leek plant to its other site in south England to be converted into other products.

Fertilisers based around seaweed, marine waste, blood and bone and other natural formulations allow plants to grow more vigorously and produce healthy fruit.

We've taken several steps to reduce our impact through efforts such as certifying our plants to achieve ISO 14001 certification and other energy standards, minimizing landfill waste, and tracking stringent sustainability performance indicators.

With his «Changing Lives» motto, President Mahama, will in the coming days, commission other major projects in Accra, including the new Ridge Hospital, inauguration of the James Town - Bukom ultra modern boxing arena, inaugurate the new liquid waste treatment plant, to make way for the eternal closure of lavender hill, which has been in existence for the past 60 years.

Sauget also is home to many other chemical plants, a hazardous waste incinerator, a copper smelter and a wastewater treatment plant.

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.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

For many years, ConAgra Foods has trucked the plant's waste — feathers, organs, and other nonusable parts — to a rendering facility where it was ground and dried to make animal feed, fertilizer, and other chemical products.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

In Los Angeles, air quality, particularly from traffic, is one of the worst, but other areas have different problems — coal - fired power plants, chemical factories, contaminated water, hazardous waste.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

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.

And, if other forms of waste, such as the stalks of corn plants (corn stover) or the remnants of timber harvest are included, Klann says, «we have enough feedstock in the U.S. to offset 70 percent of the oil import.»

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

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.

This allows cellulosic materials such as plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste, as well as other tricky polysaccharides such as insect / crustacean shells, to be broken down.

The Electric Power Development company says its experimental power plant in Kitakyushu has a generating efficiency of 35 per cent, far better than the 20 per cent achieved by other waste - burning plants and as good as an oil - fired plant.

This technique, published in the journal Nature, not only uses existing plant waste but consumes large amounts of CO2 and could be applied to other types of chemical manufacturing as well — a boon to our increasingly CO2 - saturated atmosphere.

Last February, the Department of Energy selected sixcompanies to receive funding towards building ethanol plants — scheduled to beoperational within the next three years — that will utilize new technology forprocessing corn stover as well as other types of agricultural waste.

They called in the Department of Environmental Management (DEM), and they learned it was very heavily contaminated with arsenic, with a lot of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and with other things contained in waste from a manufactured gas plant.

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

Biofuel brewers would prefer to convert either agricultural waste or other nonfood plants, such as trees and grasses, to fuels.

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).

Other SRIC program updates are our nuclear waste safety work regarding the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Louisiana Energy Services (LES) Uranium Enrichment Plant.

Some plants rely on ammonia and other nitrogenous wastes incorporated into the soil by decaying matter.

sewage sludge Nutrient - rich solid materials pulled out of sewage and other waste waters that have been treated at municipal water - treatment plants.

Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waste.

River sediment samples were collected in a gradient up and downstream from an Indian waste water treatment plant processing effluent from more than 90 bulk drug manufacturers producing a wide range of antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals [11].

In short, there is concern that waste from the Exide plant in the form of led and cadmium left over from years of battery manufacturing might leach into the groundwater, as other chemicals did in Hinkley, CA.

They're also rendered byproducts from slaughterhouses and processing plants, dead animals from ranches, farms, animal shelters, feedlots and other facilities, and food waste, including fat and grease, from restaurants and stores.

What we are talking about here is not exactly «waste» but byproducts (from meat as well as milled grains and other sources) left over from human food processing are found in many poor quality and even higher quality foods, especially when the pet food company is owned by one of the giant companies that also own plants for processing human foods.

Numerous other benefits accrue from using pyrolysis as those wastes otherwise end up being biodegraded to reemit GHGs that nature has trapped in plants.

One major issue with nuclear plants (as well as coal and all other thermal power plants) is the fresh water wasted in heat rejection.

Just as incinerators often start out burning forestry waste, and end up using virgin wood once supply of «waste» runs out, so too anaerobic digestion plants may begin by using food waste, and end up utilizing forest products or other «biofuels» grown deliberately for the purpose.

Aquaponics uses a hydroponics system in conjunction with aquaculture, which integrates the waste and water from the fish (or other aquatic animals) as fertilizer for the plants.

With competition for plant waste among cellulosic ethanol plants, landscapers, and a range of other users, added to the fact that millions of cell phones are made each year, it could quickly become yet another burden on the earth to be using so much compostable, good - for - the - soil plant matter for cell phone frames.

Other activists also shut down a coal loader, and unfurled another banner at one of the toxic coal ash ponds that stores the plant's hazardous waste products.

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

The waste wood, tree branches and other scraps are gathered together from factories and from farms to a biomass power plant.

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.

A set of 12 sectors was agreed on as a common reporting format for all air pollutants: air transportation; international shipping; other transportation (surface transport); electric power plants, energy conversion, extraction and distribution; solvents; waste (landfill, waste water, non-energy incineration); industry (combustion and process emissions); domestic (residential and commercial buildings); agricultural waste burning on fields; agriculture (agricultural soil emissions, other agriculture); savannah burning; and forest burning.

The hospital also runs a composting scheme so that food waste from the kitchen is returned to the roof as natural fertiliser for the food plants and other green landscaping.

On the other hand, it is reasonable to assume that natural market factors will gradually result in a reduction of ever more expensive fossil fuel combustion as older coal - fired power plants are shut down and replaced by nuclear plants, as hybrid and electrical cars gradually replace gasoline and diesel driven ones, and as energy efficiency is improved and waste reduced.