Sentences with phrase «solid municipal waste»

Maine is tied with four other states for the highest percentage of energy consumption from renewable resources and has the highest percentage of recycled solid municipal waste of the 50 states.

In late 2013, GM joined with Detroit Renewable Energy to announce a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from the metropolitan Detroit area into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of Detroit - Hamtramck assembly plant, home of the Chevrolet Volt.

Unwanted cell phones, televisions, PCs (including desktops, laptops, portables and computer monitors), computer peripherals (including printers, scanners and fax machines), computer mouses and keyboards amounted to more than 1.9 million tons of solid municipal waste in the U.S.; of that, more than 1.5 million tons were dumped primarily into landfills, whereas the rest was recycled, the EPA says.

The facility would burn 2,600 tons of solid municipal waste brought in by truck and or rail each day, and produce what proponents call «clean electricity.»

Not exact matches

Western Australians could be using energy converted from municipal solid waste in less than two years if companies proposing waste - to - energy plants achieve their timeframes.

Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

Polystyrene foodservice packaging — ya know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight, of the total one percent of polystyrene products generated in municipal solid waste.

U.S. communities and states that have implemented alternatives to extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies are achieving high municipal solid waste recycling rates at reasonable costs, while also addressing a wider spectrum of the waste stream than narrowly - focused EPR mandates, according to a new study conducted by consulting firm SAIC for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

Polystyrene foodservice packaging — you know, the stuff we drink our morning coffee out of and what our food comes in when we order takeout — accounts for about 0.4 percent, by weight, of the total one percent of polystyrene products generated in municipal solid waste.

This National Waste Policy builds on earlier commitments and responds to the new waste environment, the policy covers wastes, including hazardous wastes and substances, in the municipal, commercial and industrial, construction and demolition waste streams and covers gaseous, liquid and solid wastes.

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

The clog - free automatic liquid - to - solid waste separator is being introduced to the Asia - Pacific by CST Wastewater Solutions for compact dewatering applications ranging from food processing, food waste, grease trap and waste oil through to municipal wastewater sludge, livestock manure and agribusiness processes.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more food reaches landfills than other type of municipal solid waste.

Wegner: Clearly, the use of multiple materials and light weighting of flexible packaging has challenged the current infrastructures and technologies of our municipal solid waste streams.

A clog - free automatic liquid - to - solid waste separator is being introduced to Australasia by CST Wastewater Solutions for compact dewatering applications ranging from food processing, food waste, grease trap and waste oil through to municipal wastewater sludge, -LSB-...]

The Global Water Engineering (GWE) anaerobic digestion technologies — to be featured on Stand S9 — extract biogas from virtually any biological waste stream, including municipal food wastes from restaurants, food service facilities, grocery stores, and municipal solid waste, as well as organic wastes from industrial processing facilities, food and beverage plants and agribusinesses.

Incinerated municipal solids and other waste streams results in a significant amount of ash residue, which often contains valuable metals.

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.

Paper products are still the largest component of municipal solid waste, making up more than 40 % of the composition of landfills.

The main problem is the filling of landfills (though Procter & Gamble remind us that diapers account for only two percent of the nation's municipal solid waste).

Use of disposables raises a concern about solid waste management, while cloth diapers contribute to air and water pollution and possible taxing of municipal water and sewage systems.

«These ads provide important information to build public awareness about municipal solid waste composting, «Nicolosi said.

There are many hidden costs of garbage such as municipal solid waste taxes and depletion of natural resources.

Fresh Kills is the last of the landfills in New York City and the last unlined municipal solid waste landfill in New York State.

The project will fund municipal master plans for consortium communities along with solid waste and solar ordinance studies.

Open space remains the largest spending category at $ 119 million; other broad categories include: $ 58 million for parks, rec and historic preservation; and $ 21 million for municipal solid waste management.

New eco-clothes are still new clothes, and the fashion industry's insistence that one season's cool togs are the next season's trash spurs us to squander resources: Americans discarded 8,640,000 tons of clothing and footwear in 2006, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates of municipal solid waste generation — a quantity that has more than doubled since 1990.

The duo analyzed 370 communities throughout Massachusetts and found that hazardous industrial facilities, power plants, municipal solid waste combustors, toxic waste sites, landfills and trash transfer stations were unequally distributed with respect to income and / or racial composition.

One facility in Utashinai, Japan, has been doing just that since 2003, using plasma — an electrically induced stream of hot, charged particles — to process up to 220 tons of municipal solid waste a day.

United Airlines recently purchased a refinery to supply its planes with aviation fuel made entirely from municipal solid waste and Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines and British Airways have announced plans to begin using biofuels in the next two to five years.

Coskata estimates that municipal solid waste is less than 10 percent of all the available biomass — too little, perhaps, to make developing a sorting process worthwhile, at least at the outset.

Although new technologies have already been developed for the recovery of dissolved inorganic phosphates in the liquid fractions of municipal and agricultural wastes, solid residues remain a largely untapped source for phosphorus in its organic form.

Kmart had advertised the plates as biodegradable, which FTC deemed misleading because the plates would not usually decompose in municipal solid waste facilities, where about 90 percent of garbage is disposed.

Two years ago, bio-fuels such as methanol and municipal solid waste displaced hydroelectricity as the leading renewable energy source.

It turns out that there's such a double - win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had «NoMix» toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels).

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.

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

Lindberg, S.E., Southworth, G.R., Bogle, M.A., Blasing, T.J., Zhang, H., Kuiken, T., Price, J., Reinhart, D., Sfeir, H., Owens, J., Roy, K. Airborne emissions of mercury from municipal solid waste I: New measurements from six operating landfills in Florida.

Check with your municipal solid - waste or environmental protection department to find out whether commercial recycling is mandated.

It provides resource management expertise and services to residential, commercial, municipal and industrial customers, primarily in the areas of solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, recycling and organics services.

The government stated that the short and long - term costs of clean up are too great — in the municipal system, «Styrofoam and plastic comprise about 19 % of the volume, and therefore 19 % of the cost of national solid waste management» — and biodegradable options already exist in the Belizean market.

In the municipal waste stream, plastic and Styrofoam comprise about 19 % of the volume, and therefore 19 % of the cost of national solid waste management.

It deals with waste resources such as municipal solid waste, different kinds of imported waste, waste electrical and electronic products and steel scrap with environmental management technology.

In the context of the articles I write, «waste» refers to municipal solid waste (MSW)-- the kind of trash that gets hauled to landfills.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

Municipal solid waste is about the only biofuel source that does not exhibit this problem.

By doing so, the city could provide the nation's greatest test case for the economics of converting municipal solid waste to electricity, heat, reclaimed metals and the rest could be spun into rock wool to provide cheap insulation material.

In fact, since 2010, food waste is the single largest component of municipal solid waste reaching landfills and incinerators.

15Excludes existing hydroelectric generation, and excludes existing and new municipal solid waste generation.

The smallest subsidies on a per unit basis were for coal, natural gas and petroleum liquids, and municipal solid waste, all at less than $ 0.45 per megawatthour of generation.»