Sentences with phrase «solid waste stream»

Once removed from a building, they often become part of the municipal solid waste stream and contribute to air, land, and water contamination.

«Jenna created a framework to analyze solid waste streams in countries around the world that can easily be adapted by anyone who is interested,» she said.

«Advanced anaerobic technology such as that installed at Chok Chai Starch is also strongly applicable to any factory or process with one or more digestible solid waste streams.»

His primary responsibility is supporting ISS Integrated Facilities Services Team in developing programs to minimize solid waste streams by developing and implementing recycling and reuse best practices throughout North America.

«Jenna created a framework to analyze solid waste streams in countries around the world that can easily be adapted by anyone who is interested,» Law said.

Currently 16 billion diapers weighing 3 million tons create 2 % of the entire US solid waste stream.

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.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Web site states: «Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream.»

GWE Chairman and CEO Mr Jean Pierre Ombregt says advanced anaerobic technology is strongly applicable to any factory or process with one or more digestible solid waste streams.

«Our recycling initiatives have removed, on average, one - third of our waste from entering the solid waste stream,» Faucheux says.

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.

In a plant - wide effort to minimize all solid waste streams, the team was able to realize an annualized savings of 127 tons of solid waste, or 330 percent of the 2020 goal in fiscal 2014 alone.

«You might go into a large skyscraper and allow them to manage their solid waste stream right there in the building,» Warner adds.

According to the EPA, about 28 percent of the solid waste stream in the United States consists of food waste and yard trimmings.

We will continue to split the solid waste stream into its components as needed.

Composting uses the Drawdown Reduction and Replacement Solutions (RRS) Model to evaluate the global organic municipal solid waste stream; clean cookstoves uses the RRS model to evaluate terawatt hours (therms) of heating energy for cooking.

In addition to this, yard trimmings and food waste, combined, make up 24 percent of our nation's municipal solid waste stream.

'' [Unnamed seed company],... has been developing new varieties of fermentable corn that show a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in the amount of ethanol produced»... Although the cattle feed byproduct will likley not be usd by organic beef producers, the solid waste stream looks to be minimal.