Sentences with phrase «paper waste into»

NUS researchers turn paper waste into ultralight super material that improves oil spill cleaning and heat insulation

Recycling or converting paper waste into useful products, therefore, contributes towards environmental conservation.

A research team from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has achieved a world's first by successfully converting paper waste into green cellulose aerogels that are non-toxic, ultralight, flexible, extremely strong and water repellent.

«Researchers turn paper waste into ultralight super material that improves oil spill cleaning, heat insulation.»

The NUS team has also developed a more eco-friendly process to convert paper waste into aerogels.

Not exact matches

Cloud networks and scanning necessary documents into cloud systems reduces the amount of paper waste and other small waste items a business has to purchase for printed documents.

The proposed pipeline would redirect waste from the Georgia - Pacific paper mill from Rice Creek into the river.

My earliest memories have to do with the bound volumes of paper and ink that began to bleed into my soul, climbing into a low - slung tree in the back yard and wasting an hour with Tom Sawyer or the Count of Monte Cristo.

David any time you want to supplies the pictures, I'll throw my wit into your waste paper basket.

Flatten the ball onto the greaseproof paper and either shape into a round flat biscuit, or using a heart shaped cutter press the dough into a heart shape (adding the offcuts to the next biscuit so they don't get wasted!)

Besides recycling paper, plastic and other trash, the Atlantis Casino also gives its organic waste such as peels and skins to a company that turns it into compost and sells it as fertilizer to local farmers.

I found it helpful to use the wrapper from the stick of butter, which I had already dropped into the bowl I would melt it in over the water on the stove, being concerned concerned about making it too hot in the microwave for the recipe, to smear a large pinch of butter without making a mess of my fingers or wasting a paper towel and butter that would be absorbed (probably used between 1/2 and 3/4 tbsp, but I did not measure).

After paper, food waste comprises the greatest volume of waste going into our nation's landfills.

Cloth diapers reduce landfill waste and prevent dangerous chemicals such as dioxins (commonly found in paper products) from being released into our environment.

Step 6: Let him crumple the paper into a ball, stand behind the taped line and toss it into the waste basket.

You can do this with a diaper sprayer (think of a kitchen sink sprayer that attaches to the back of your toilet), or you can use a rice paper liner (they look like a dryer sheet) and put the waste easily into the toilet.

They pump clean water from your pipes, through the hose and can be used to spray the solid waste off of cloth diapers and into the toilet — the same job I do with a piece of toilet paper.

This isn't taking into account the electricity, wastewater, soap, etc., used in either situation, as well as other energy / waste issues related with toilet paper, such as packaging, transport, chlorine, etc..

A small proportion of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the bed and the wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who rolled out of bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top of the bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.

Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.

The Earth Island Institute, among other groups concerned about forest loss due to paper consumption, would instead like to see more research into using agricultural waste to make paper instead of wood pulp or bamboo.

And when it's applied, recycling generally works as designed, turning waste paper into fresh paper or old aluminum cans into new ones.

The real «Mr. Fusion,» or «tactical hybrid refinery» to use Army - speak, processes the waste produced by a typical kitchen — food, plastics, paper — into fuel that runs a standard diesel generator.

«This new material is better than the traditional material, Bismuth telluride, and can be used for waste heat conversion into electricity much more efficiently,» said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair professor of physics at UH and the lead author of a paper describing the discovery, published online by Nano Energy.

While popular catalysts called zeolites could help turn paper manufacturing waste and other biomass into fuel, the catalyst crumbles after just two days in hot water.

By telling residents how disposable chopsticks will be recycled into paper material, how aluminum cans will be sold for 155 yen, and how glasses and ceramics will be crushed and used in construction projects, the Zero Waste Academy is involving them in the process and creating a community around waste disposal.

Script character recognition in combination with an EMT panel allows students to write on the screen, convert their script into typed characters and helps teachers to check assignments (replacing paper for classwork and homework to reduce waste and save time).

Obviously, when you are with us, the custom paper writing will not turn into a waste of money.

This is all laudable yet unlikely to increase anyone's desire to use more paper, regardless of the amount of post-industrial consumer waste we can stuff into it.

Why waste all that hard work and the substantial investment you've made by putting it into what amounts to a brown paper bag?

A better choice can be shredded paper of some sort, the waste from a paper shredder that's cut into strips like confetti is a great choice.

Carefresh Pet Bedding has turned pulp and paper industry waste into pet owner's favorite brand of pet bedding.

His Piñatero method, based on the Mexican piñata, demonstrates the transformation of waste paper into sculpture (Harithas, 1999).

For his recent solo show earlier this year at Pippy Houldsworth, Japanese artist Yuken Teruya (previously) transformed the waste products of consumerism — luxury gift bags — into cut paper trees that rise like fragile silhouettes from inside each bag.

These should go into a household organic waste container designated for pyrolysis that would include all paper, products including disposable diapers.

Sierra Nevada averages around 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of food waste per day of spent hops and / or grain material, paper towels and compostable products that goes into their composter.

Issues such as where the designed paper fiber fuel is to be introduced into the combustion process to maximize combustion, optimum operating temperatures, and pollutant management in flue gases and ash residue all will influence the waste processing operation and costs.

This is a very reasonable estimate of the paper fiber that could be converted into fuel available from the City of Toledo waste stream and obviously is not enough.

The Paper Fiber Processing Company needs to be able to accept delivery of the waste stream material, and turn it into a product ready for the local market in a timely fashion.

The system being piloted includes the use of water - resistant paper bags for compost recovery, which are anticipated to facilitate greater participation while also ensuring that composters in the region can process the waste easily into high - value soil products.

Do not dump your cigarette waste directly into the shipping box and do not use paper bags or envelopes to collect your waste.

Do not dump your cigarette waste directly into the shipping box and do not use paper bags to collect your waste.

We've fallen into the trap of paper towels, wet wipes, plastic bags, and so many other wasteful single - use items that have simple low - waste alternatives.

The folks at Way Basics decided to engineer a product that uses some of that excess waste office paper, but that is also durable enough to last for years before it is recycled back into more zBoard shelves and cabinets.

Turning animal poop into paper is no longer just a cool way to convert wastes into useful products — it's now an award - winning cool way to convert wastes into useful products!

Current Configuration has put some thought into the poo - poo problem and has hit upon the solution - hanging the bog roll with the sheets coming over the top wastes less paper.

They've introduced new four new microfiber towels designed to stem the flood of paper towels into the waste stream; each microfiber is finer than a human hair and is sliced 16 times, resulting in millions of microscopic hooks in each cloth to capture dirt, dust and even six times their weight in water.

Even bottled water comes from somewhere, and the water and other resources that go into making plastic bottles and paper plates are likely to far outweigh the amount wasted from table service of tap water.

«We will then discuss what needs to be discussed and most of it won't relate to many of the documents they've brought into the room, and on the way out they will put the excess documentation in the waste paper basket.

You can say something like, you promoted better paper management and turned your office into a green office, reducing the waste and lowering cost for trash maintenance by a third.