Sentences with phrase «other waste generated»

Towne Park is leading a race to recycle tickets, bottles, cans and other waste generated at work sites nationwide Towne Park valets over 6 million vehicles annually using a multi-part ticket...

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Unlike landfills, composting coffee and other food waste generates virtually no methane.

The report found that food waste generated through manufacturing tends to be unused ingredients, unfinished product, or trimmings, peels and other unavoidable food waste.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

Further, the EPA reports more food goes into landfills nationwide than any other single material in municipal solid waste, and in 2010 alone Americans generated more than 34 million tons of food waste.

This past legislative session alone, he sponsored legislation to require the Department of Education to establish an education for environmental sustainability program to teach children the importance of conserving and protecting our environment; ban formaldehyde in certain children's products; and to require facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize food waste, among many others.

«Former President Jonathan could not have wasted 11 trillion or any other amounts of money for the simple reason that he was the Nigerian President who privatized the Power Sector beginning on August 26, 2010 when he launched the roadmap to power sector reforms and culminating on October 16, 2012 when the winning bids were announced for the sale of power generating and distributing companies.

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.

Hydraulic fracturing, along with other processes used to drill wells, generates emissions and millions of gallons of hazardous waste that are dumped into open - air pits.

In the last decade, chemists have worked to develop reusable catalysts that separate out from the end products without the help of other often - toxic and waste - generating chemicals.

Others, meanwhile, could reduce future nuclear waste burdens by operating for decades without refuelling, burning up more of their fuel and generating smaller volumes of waste.

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.

You know, 55 percent of the power generated in the United States is wasted and wasted because it is dissipated as heat and other sorts of losses; 25 percent of the food generated in the country is wasted as waste in that case.

Unlike other models, GCAM includes carbon stored in forests, causing forest acreage to increase even as energy systems change to include fuels generated from bioenergy crops and crop waste.

Industries, like municipalities and other entities that generate wastes, dispose of many liquid wastes through wastewater systems (and ultimately to waterbodies), whereas they dispose of their solid wastes in landfills.

«Unlike today's nuclear reactor, the IFR [integral fast reactor] can generate unlimited amounts of inexpensive clean power for hundreds of thousands of years... It provides an excellent solution for what to do with our nuclear waste because it can use our existing nuclear waste for fuel and it is significantly more proliferation - resistant than other methods of dealing with nuclear waste... The IFR is also inherently safe.

However, as we all know, the school culture must be set around self - improvement and developing others, not just about creating schemes of work, marking, writing reports and data entry / analysis, otherwise the additional energy will be wasted on «spinning the hamster» wheel, not generating new ideas and improving opportunities for all.

For example, in any type of romance fiction, the HEA (Happily Ever After) is pretty much non-negotiable — if your romance doesn't end in a HEA, you'd better be able to generate those emotions in other ways, otherwise readers will avoid your stories, and you've wasted time writing them.

Even if your intentions are to use the money to repay debts, many people who do this continue to generate high - interest debt on credit cards or other large purchases and spend unnecessary money on wasted refinancing fees while still losing equity in their home.

When blood fl ows through the kidneys, the kidneys act as a complex fi lter that removes from blood wastes that are generated from break down of food, old cells, toxins or poisons and many drugs that are given for treatment of other diseases.

It's a familiar mix of finding ways to add a price to pollution, moving forward with standards and policies that fulfill the huge potential for cutting energy waste and also invigorating the innovation pipeline by greatly boosting investment — public and private — in research and development and the other steps required to generate insights and turn them into new and widely disseminated technologies.

One major step on the pathway to a circular economy is finding ways to transform waste materials into feedstock for other products, whether that's as a raw material for production, or as a «fuel» for generating energy.

Defines: (1) «renewable electricity» as electricity generated from a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resources; (2) «renewable energy resource» as wind, solar, and geothermal energy, renewable biomass, biogas and biofuels derived exclusively from renewable biomass, qualified hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy; and (3) «other qualifying energy resource» as landfill gas, wastewater treatment gas, coal mine methane used to generate electricity at or near the mine mouth, and qualified waste - to - energy.

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.

Steam - turbine power boilers can be used in sawmills to generate steam by burning bark and other waste products.

These states have indicated their dissatisfaction with the current electricity - generation system by enacting binding RPSs, which require that wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, waste, or other renewable resources be used to generate up to 30 % of the electricity sold by 2025.

Since January 1, 2012, renewable energy sources have accounted for nearly half (47.83 %) of all new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity followed by natural gas (38.34 %) and coal (13.40 %) with oil, waste heat, and «other» accounting for the balance.

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..

If other companies were to ensure by - products were fed into the supply chain of other industries — for example by using waste products to generate energy — we would see a big positive impact on climate change, pollution and the Earth's dwindling resources.

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.

Factory Farmed Fuel Not Solution to Fossil Fuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being replaced.

MIT News reports, «So far, most efforts to harness multiple energy sources have simply switched among them, taking advantage of whichever one is generating the most energy at a given moment, Bandyopadhyay says, but that can waste the energy being delivered by the other sources... The approach combines energy from multiple sources by switching rapidly between them.»

It's far more effective to reduce the amount of food waste that gets generated in the first place, and to have municipal, community, or neighborhood food waste solutions managing the actual decomposition of the organic matter, but that's a whole other topic entirely.

In the «Re-sea Me» project, Hoogvliet's aim was to bring attention to how much fish waste is generated, and to encourage others to think of new ways to use this potentially quite beautiful material.

Other miscellaneous wastes made up approximately three percent of the MSW generated in 2014.

Members can join as participants if they are generating food waste or as endorsers if they are not generating their own food waste but can help others reduce their waste (i.e., organizations looking to help educate or recruit for the FRC) with requirements to provide data or report activities / accomplishments to the challenge.

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.

Paid by Alpha Natural Resources, Arch Coal, Peabody Energy and others undisclosed, David Schnare and Chris Horner of Energy and Environment Legal Institute * generate endless time - wasting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to harass climate scientists, as recently summarized by the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.

Some are reputable and generate positive results, others are simply ineffective, but still, do no harm besides wasting a lawyer's money.

The company offers clear value propositions that begin in waste reduction (paper production savings) but also generate paralegal productivity as well as reduce travel costs and other headaches associated with large boxes of litigation documents.

The Dutch organization, which you have probably never heard of, is currently experimenting with the idea of taking waste heat which is generated by the human body and transposing it into a reusable energy source which can then be used to power the computers which mine Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

That limit was included to make it nearly impossible for 2 blocks to be generated simultaneously, which would waste the energy required for one of those blocks since the network would accept one block and nullify the other.