The zero landfill figure this year was achieved using a number of tactics — initially by trying not to
create waste in the first place.
Normal cellular
metabolism creates waste, but in today's world, constant exposure to pollutants in the air, food, and water add to this burden of toxins in the body.
The recycling and waste disposal regimes in some countries are a long way behind, so the best answer is to try to
avoid creating waste.
Adam Minter's Junkyard Planet explores how China copes with more and more plastic waste, along with the pollution problems it creates
Without the complimentary metabolic functions of producers or decomposers urban agents must obtain these resources from sources found outside the community, while
also creating wastes of little use to the community, forming the traditional input and output externalities of urban life.
Unfortunately this second
system creates waste materials like lactic acid, which builds up inside the muscles, and leads to delayed onset muscle soreness.
totally agree, it is high time to tax all religious organizations - lets have them pay for the waste they create
By applying a combination of well - established technologies Quantum Waste have
created a waste bag that transforms wasted food into fertiliser.
TerraCycle partners with companies to
create waste stream solutions through «upcycling,» or creating usable goods from items previously considered waste.
Voting to
create a waste repository at Yucca Mountain today would solve no problems and create a few new ones for the people of my state.
These
bacteria create waste products that slow down the bodies ability to detox outside environmental pollution and pollen making the person's immune system to overreact with headaches, sneezing ect.
Starring Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Alive Eve, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, «Criminal» is one of those spare genre films that boasts a very talented cast but involves a convoluted narrative that
ultimately creates a wasted opportunity that most won't remember.
Humans create waste and garbage, a lot of which ends up in the ocean, creating environmental hazards, endangering wildlife, and interfering with navigation.
The book examines the environmental impact of the infamous tar sands, which has built an empire on scarring the land and
creating waste dikes that leak, causing illness in fish and human downstream.
The shirt created the of 41 times it's own weight in CO2 emissions and
created waste equal to 2 / 3rds of its weight.
But with the rise of cheaply mass - produced plastics, increased levels of consumerism, and planned obsolescence in many products, our modern culture
now creates waste on an unsustainable scale.
Although an easy energy source, protein does not «burn clean», and breaking it down
creates a waste product called urea.
By designing and cutting his patterns, like jigsaws from a single piece of fabric,
without creating any waste, Liu is producing new forms and details in his clothing that are totally distinctive.
While ACP's clients generally don't consider the paper to be a major cost, even a slight miscalibration of the machines that use it can
create waste and production delays.
Because the SEC's rules for resubmission of a failed proposal by a shareholder in the next year's proxy statement require that the proposal have received up to 10 % of the vote (depending on how many years it has been submitted), the significant voting impact of an ISS recommendation can empower a proponent to resubmit a proposal year after year, imposing costs on the company and
creating waste and negative publicity to the detriment of the company and its shareholders.
For some extra fun lovin» with this recipe, we used the leftover mint chocolate in the bottom of our pot and added some almond milk to make the most delicious hot chocolate and not
create waste!
I also find they tend to
create waste, mostly plastic waste, and they are ingredients that are all sitting in my cupboard.
The only real downside to the disposable system is that
it creates waste, which you may want to avoid.
Disposable products
create waste, whether that waste is sent to a landfill for thousands of years, flushed and disposed of through wastewater treatment, or composted and disposed of as yard waste.
It does not require the use of energy for manufacturing or
create waste or air pollution.
Cloth or disposable diapers both use resources and
create waste.
I think right now we can get away with not asking these hard questions because enough people on earth still live in relative poverty and are not
creating the waste that we as a country create, but when that changes (and it will), or when we have created so much waste ourselves as to arrive at that critical tipping point, we will need to have difficult conversations about these things.
Disposable products
create waste, whether that waste is sent to a landfill for 1000 years, flushed and disposed of through wastewater treatment, or composted and disposed of as yard waste.
Our electronic gadgets are notoriously difficult to recycle and have
created waste problems few know how to deal with.
Paper is burned at the end of its lifecycle and this process uses electricity,
creates waste and emits harmful gas.
High - quality blends, on the other hand, have no fillers and
create no waste.
They require few resources and
create no waste.
As I discuss in my new book, The New Rules of Green Marketing, every product must use resources and
create waste.
Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that
create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»
If Hilltop were to
create a waste - to - energy project, that would be the end of the clear - blue flare, which sometimes rises above the treetops and can be seen from the road, prompting nervous emergency calls.