Sentences with phrase «produced by landfills»

May 17, 2012 Trash to energy: Oklahoma business fires bricks with landfill gas Methane produced by landfills is a powerful greenhouse gas.

Using biogas produced by landfills or wastewater treatment plants is one way to make renewable hydrogen.

Not exact matches

But methane gas, which is produced by, among other things, rotting garbage in the nation's landfills, is 22 times more potent a contributor to global warming.

Georgiou Group has taken a proactive approach to avoid the slated increase in landfill levies, by recycling more than 90 per cent of the waste produced on its building sites.

Recycling reduces the amount of energy needed to produce something new while also protecting the environment by preserving landfill space and reducing water pollution.

According to Kids Konserve,» the amount of trash produced by one child's lunch alone creates 67 pounds of landfill waste in a school year!»

As just mentioned, your child will probably produce roughly 6000 diapers in the first few years of its life, and every single one of them will end up in the landfill, contributing to the 4.2 million pounds of landfill waste caused every year by diapers.

The company built a new 5 - bay kiln at the Madison County landfill to take advantage of waste heat produced by a nearby landfill gas power plant.

Methane is produced naturally, by processes including decomposition, and by human activity such as landfills and oil and gas production.

That same year, about 24,000 tons of CRT glass — which is filled with lead to protect viewers from the x-rays produced by the monitor — was sold to markets abroad to replace damaged CRTs in various countries, and North American waste and recycling companies recovered about 10,000 tons of lead (meaning it was not placed into landfills or incinerated).

The Real Junk Food Project was founded four years ago by Adam Smith, who was appalled to find out that around one third of all food produced across the world ends up in landfill.

This landfill free solution is recommended as a «clean, reliable, and renewable source of energy» that «produces electricity with less environmental impact than almost any other source of electricity» by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

They are so mass produced that the majority are probably destined for landfills once the fad passes or is replaced by something new.

Third were the thematic issues — Issue 2.6 / Food and Issue 2.15 / Performance: The Body Politic — and the thematic features that unfolded over the course of the year: Bruno Fazzolari's conversation series investigating abstraction and the terms on which it is defined or negotiated in contemporary artistic practice; Elyse Mallouk's Landfill series, which triangulates with a print journal, quarterly subscription, and website, all of which archive and redistribute the materials produced by socially engaged artworks; and Zachary Royer Scholz's series about the historical and contemporary economic, political, technological, and cultural factors that shape the visual arts in the Bay Area and its possibilities for the future.

Estimating that it costs $ 100 per tonne to produce the biocoal and permanently sequester the stuff in abandoned mines or carbon landfills, a mere one trillion dollars per year suffices for the 8.5 GtC being produced by human activities recently.

The environmental devastation caused by manufacturing is horrific, from the chromium contamination of vast regions of northern India by tanneries, to the brimming landfill sites of America, where 11 million tons of clothes are thrown away annually, left to rot and produce methane gas.

By capturing this landfill gas and using it to produce electricity, the methane and carbon dioxide contained within are destroyed, reducing the emissions released.

The last time I checked on this, biogas from a landfill owned by the Vermont Energy Cooperative was producing power at the lowest wholesale rate available in Vermont.

Biological production of chemicals would provide another potential use for any syngas produced by or for Waste Management through anaerobic digestion, gasification and landfill gas.

«These are much more tractable,» Dr. Hansen said, citing as an example existing systems for capturing methane produced by decomposing organic material in landfills.

My local landfill captures and flares the methane produced by the decay of my trash in accordance with California law.

Then the landfill was capped and covered, which allows Ayalon Biogas to collect methane produced by the still rotting garbage, which is used to power a textile factory.

To offset that would require producing about 470 megatonnes of bioanthracite to be sequestered in carbon landfills, by weight almost one - half of the coal production in the United States.

With regard to emissions from wastewater transport and treatment (Figure 10.2 b), the CH4 is microbially produced under strict anaerobic conditions as in landfills, while the N2O is an intermediate product of microbial nitrogen cycling promoted by conditions of reduced aeration, high moisture and abundant nitrogen.