Sentences with phrase «urban waste»

The consequences of transfers of microplastics from urban waste water to agricultural soil have barely been considered by researchers and authorities, particularly in lieu of the extended attention directed at microplastics in the ocean.

But it seems pretty clear that small - scale urban farm biogas digestion has great potential for gleaning energy from urban waste streams, recapturing valuable nutrients and returning them to the soil, and of course keeping rotting matter out of landfills7mdash; preventing both methane emissions and leaching in the process.

Others include timber processing wastes, urban waste wood, landfill methane, and modest amounts of agriculture residues.

Grouped into communities, these microorganisms may help clean rainwater and urban waste by decomposing solid debris and pollutants such as exhaust fumes and engine oil.

If biofuels are to free us from rising prices at the pump and rising sea levelsthey must be produced from agricultural and urban wastes rather than corn, soy, and other food crops.

The gulls that are now killing whale calves off Argentina weren't a big problem until an increase in fishing and urban waste drove an increase in the gull population.

Drugs and chemicals that are flushed down toilets and drains have long been reported in urban waste water and the streams into which it flows.

The big risks were listed as climate change, water scarcity, vast urban waste, food insecurity, public heath burdens, economic inequality, and demographic cliffs.

Recycling points have also been installed throughout the island to reduce excessive urban waste.

Functioning as an anthropologist or a conservationist almost as much as an artist, Asim conceives large - scale works and constructions that integrate high and low technology, blending materials like bamboo and urban waste with sensors or digital mapping techniques to illustrate the compatibility of traditional and modern technologies.

Indian NGO Chitwan wins UN award for its work to improve e-waste recycling among urban waste pickers

Since the early Nineties, southern regions in Italy have experienced chronic issues of illegal disposal of urban waste, mainly due to easy access to uncultivated land, presence of caves and sovereignty of mafiosi — to use a general definition that encompasses mafia, camorra, «ndrangheta and other networks.

Examples include growing winter cover crops for energy, timber processing wastes, urban waste wood, landfill methane, wood from agroforestry systems that boost productivity, and crop residues that are not otherwise used.

Their contribution to urban waste is negligible: a recent Toronto street - litter survey found plastic retail bags constitute less than 1 % of total garbage.

Another quick - maturing technology, which Canadian firm Iogen is pioneering, is cellulose ethanol, a fuel made from crop and forest residues and urban wastes that could be locally produced in rural British Columbia.

The top 12 also included three areas of environmental concern: air pollution by oxides of nitrogen and other combustion products; the increase in carbon dioxide levels causing global warming; and urban waste.

Nailing and gluing together forgotten pieces of urban waste — train tickets, scraps of fabric, candy wrappers — Schwitters advanced collage and assemblage as integral modernist practices perhaps more than any artist of his time.

This re-appropriation of urban waste is another form of repair that allowed for the construction of free, minimalist, and highly functional residential units, the measurements of which inspired a generation of architects like Le Corbusier and Roland Simounet.

Over his career, Commoner worked on nuclear fallout, pesticides, water contamination, air pollution, toxic metals, the petrochemical industry, population, energy and nuclear power, urban waste disposal, dioxin, recycling, and all manner of other environmental issues.

Species were hunted almost to the point of extinction, making fish far more expensive, and the oceans became a dumping ground for industrial and urban waste, spreading contamination throughout the marine food chain and making it unsafe to eat fish in great quantities.

Sources of biomass resources for producing electricity are diverse; including energy crops (like switchgrass), agricultural waste, manure, forest products and waste, and urban waste.

Water is also polluted by industrial and urban waste.

This project is an inquiry into urban waste, free art, and notions of femininity, beauty and domesticity.