Sentences with phrase «reducing wasted gas»

· Agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and EPA should work with industry to revise contracts so that companies throughout the natural gas supply chain can share in the savings from reducing wasted gas.

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$ AGN is committed to doing our part to reduce climate change: decrease energy consumption, greenhouse gas, water use & waste by ~ 20 % in 2020

Food - X helps Walmart fulfill last mile home delivery and — through shared warehousing and consolidation of orders — reduces waste, truck trips and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

«Reducing food waste benefits communities by sending less food to landfill, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the resources required to meet food demand, and enhancing food security,» said Kathleen McLaughlin, chief sustainability officer, Wal - Mart Stores, Inc., and president of the Walmart FouReducing food waste benefits communities by sending less food to landfill, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the resources required to meet food demand, and enhancing food security,» said Kathleen McLaughlin, chief sustainability officer, Wal - Mart Stores, Inc., and president of the Walmart Foureducing the resources required to meet food demand, and enhancing food security,» said Kathleen McLaughlin, chief sustainability officer, Wal - Mart Stores, Inc., and president of the Walmart Foundation.

We are now working toward achieving by 2020 new goals for reducing solid waste, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, nonrenewable energy use and packaging.

Actions include setting and updating sustainability goals, improving the sustainability profile of their packaging, reducing solid waste generation, greenhouse gas emissions and consumption of water and power, supporting environmental organizations and adopting corporate social responsibility initiatives to improve the plight of the neediest among us.Read More >

Reducing energy waste in manufacturing and improving production line efficiency is essential if manufacturers are to comply with mandatory greenhouse gas emissions regulations and EU targets - and it'll also help lower energy bills.

The company is also converting its truck fleet from diesel fuel to more environmentally friendly compressed natural gas and is aiming to reduce its landfill - bound waste by 50 percent in the next five years.

In 2009, Snyder's of Hanover set a goal to reduce its energy and natural gas usage and greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent each in the next five years, as well as reduce its solid waste by 30 percent in the same period.

WHEREAS compostable coffee pods help keep food waste out of landfill, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

We can reduce our environmental impact since food waste puts unnecessary pressure on land and natural resources and results in additional greenhouse gas emissions.

We set ambitious targets under Amcor's internal EnviroAction programme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce waste - to - landfill, and have active waste management plans in place in all of our sites.

Diverting food waste from landfills also reduces the generation of harmful gases that contribute to climate change.

We have implemented a universal process to achieve our sustainability goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, solid landfill waste and water consumption.

AD — anaerobic digestion — is a naturally occurring process which can be integrated into waste management and farming to reduce costs and carbon emissions, and produce gas, electricity, fuel and fertiliser:

This calculator also describes the environmental impacts of food recovery, including an estimate for the impact on greenhouse gas emissions from reducing food waste.

- The green toys sand play set is made in the U.S.A. from recycled plastic milk containers that save energy, reduce landfill waste and lower greenhouse gas emissions, all in the name of good green fun.

Hilary Benn has pointed out that modern incinerators actually emit less toxic gas than a barbeque, and could help to reduce waste and therefore greenhouse gases.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

Beyond reducing greenhouse gases, recycling saves about 1,000 pounds of solid waste, some 10,000 gallons of water, and 17 million Btu of energy per ton of paper.

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).

Thierry Dujardin, an official with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, told Science for a 27 February 2009 article that fast reactors could help reduce nuclear waste and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

«Our findings could help significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity generation and agricultural wastes.

The process will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from waste treatment by an estimated 19 %.

Adapted to their very hot but watery environment, these microbes metabolized hydrogen - rich compounds or dead or live organic materials to derive the energy that sustains anaerobic life, including sulfate - reducing bacteria that produce Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), fermentative bacteria that produce carbon dioxide and alcohol -LRB-- OH), and methanogenic bacteria — the methanogens found in sewage and mudflats today — that produce methane (CH4) gas as a waste product.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane - rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996.

Plastics provide tremendous benefits to society and our planet, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, food waste and energy use — but used plastics don't belong in our ocean.

These «vulnerable» projects — for example, which reduce methane emissions or industrial waste gases — could supply up to 700 million CERs for their emission reduction activities between 2013 to 2020.

Environmental Impact and Energy Efficiency: Schools have made efforts to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, improve water quality and conservation, decrease hazardous waste production, and expand use of alternative transportation.

It will reduce the amount of waste product, meaning less gas, and less smell too.

The emergence of the camera technology has reduced cost and time associated with leak detection and repair programs and is leading to significant reductions in emissions and wasted natural gas with very little cost.

But a specially type of infrared photography has created a breakthrough in efforts to cut pollution from the expanding oil and gas industry, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less local air pollution and less wasted natural gas.

We can only increase energy supply while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions if new power plants turn away from using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

Most of us know that recycling helps to minimise our reliance on raw materials as well as reducing landfill and damaging greenhouse gases - but you may not know what happens to your waste once it has been put out for collection.

The magazine campaign, created by the European Fur Breeders» Association (EFBA), listed a number of reasons «Why it's eco-friendly to wear fur» including points such as «Fur lasts a lifetime,» «No waste,» «Food Chain Recycling,» «Helps conservation,» and «Reduced CO2 gas emissions.»

Sadly, it will be either gas taxes and / or diminishing supplies of this nonrenewable resource that will encourage consumers to stop driving and wasting energy, and, in effect, reduce the «pressure at the pump».

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

To reduce the greenhouse gas pollution from this waste, New England Waste Services of New York (NEWS), the landfill operators, voluntarily built a landfill methane gas collection and destruction system.

The Dawson people are certainly good environmental stewards: reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50 per cent in the past six years and committed to achieving carbon neutrality; composting 600 kilograms of cafeteria and other food waste annually; and attracting birds and insects rarely seen in downtown Montréal back to their natural habitat.

• Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future genReducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future genreducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future genReducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future generations

It keeps them from building up methane gas (which is a major part of global warming) as they decompose in plastic trash bags, and it helps reduce the amount of waste in landfills.

Cities can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously addressing other pressing local environmental problems such as air pollution, waste, and transport, not to mention other challenges such as local economic development.

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Reducing food waste around the world would help curb emissions of planet - warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists said on Thursday.

Mohareb says diet choices (such as eating less red meat) and reducing food waste are two big ways people in cities can cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Building combined cycle gas turbine plants near users and recycling waste heat saves even more money, reducing required costs by $ 25 per MWh versus the same technology built remote from users.

The administration's decision to withdraw the application for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, lacks scientific justification and could hamper the nation's effort to use nuclear energy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

We need a global programme whose purpose is to leave most coal and oil and gas reserves in the ground, while developing new sources of power and reducing the amazing amount of energy we waste.

From spurring energy conservation to waste reduction and more, these tactics may yield meaningful opportunities to respond to climate change, especially as international negotiations to reduce atmospheric greenhouse - gas levels betray many people's hopes for a better future.

Instead of doing this, why don't we simply fix the broken permit process for new nuclear plants and give modest tax incentives to industries or individuals that implement «no regrets» initiatives to reduce CO2, such as: — replace new coal - fired power plants with nuclear or natural gas (where a gas supply exists)-- replace newnormal automobiles with hybrids — replace Diesel for new heavy transport with natural gas — install energy savings initiatives (waste recycling, better building insulation, etc..)