Sentences with phrase «use of plant materials»

For Plan B, we estimate that the worldwide use of plant materials to generate electricity could contribute 200 gigawatts of capacity by 2020.

We anticipate that the worldwide use of plant materials to generate electricity could contribute 200 gigawatts to generating capacity by 2020.

Not exact matches

More than 320 employees in 20 quarries and six plants across Canada and the U.S. produce its materials, using 1.5 million cubic feet of rough blocks each year.

Growers are relying on temporary solutions — trying to prevent it from entering new regions, using clean planting materials and limiting the transfer of potentially infected soil between farms.

This could lead to the use of poor - quality varieties, since the planting material is less likely to be vetted and verified.

There is, for example, a growing group of automobile parts companies that import raw materials from outside the United States, own and operate multiple manufacturing plants that are close to their domestic customers, distribute finished goods through consumer direct channels, selling most of their products upstream for inclusion in final assembly and use excess manufacturing capacity to produce specialty export parts for foreign customers.

That can be achieved only when all the factors necessary for the production and use of goods — capital, labor, raw materials and plant facilities — are freely mobilized and deployed according to the most efficient pattern — and that in turn will be possible only when national boundaries no longer play a critical role in defining economic horizons.»

But they will mainly use a combination of action strategies to stop plant closures and / or to propose community - worker plant buyouts, to push legislation protecting the worker, to propose alternative economic development plans and to hold conferences and publish educational materials.

Of all the plant material produced on land each year in the world, humans use 40 per cent.

A mature rainforest community of plants and animals recycles virtually all materials used as resources.

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

EXBERRY ® Colouring Foods are made from fruits, vegetables and edible plants, without the use of any raw materials of animal origin.

Via website, an application can be filed for the use of undressed non-organic seeds or planting material.

What began in 1989 as a Cargill research project looking for innovative uses of carbohydrates from plants as feedstock for more sustainable plastics has quickly matured into the innovative materials for which we are known today.

Tate & Lyle is a global provider of distinctive, high quality ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage and other industries.Though our large - scale, efficient manufacturing plants, we use innovative technology to turn raw materials into distinctive,...

The plant will not only produce natural meat products but also supply raw materials for use in the processing at other units of BRF.

We are developing novel seed, leaf and algal - based materials for more intensive and efficient production of plant oils for both industrial and nutritional uses.

Use of Plant - Based Material for PET Bottles and a New Crushable Design Contribute to Reduced Weight and Volume at End of Life, The Coca - Cola Company — Japan

This PET bottle is extremely light and has the environmental benefit of using up to 30 percent plant - based material, reducing the petroleum - based materials.

Amatil spent $ 45 million to build plants that will use 15 per cent less resin in the production of each bottle, resulting in significant raw material cost savings.

He said dairy industry wastewater is particularly attractive as potential source of valuable resources in Ireland as it is not contaminated with pathogenic material or heavy metals, which makes it possible to use recovered resources to grow protein rich plants.

Colgate is committed to the health and safety of babies, and introduced the use of organic materials in crib mattresses, such as coconut coir, organic cotton and other plant - based materials.

Essentially, until it can be precisely documented which different materials, containing which components and in which degree of cleanliness, are used at recycling plants, we can not be sure that the end recycled material is not harmful to health.

If infection is present, discard any plant material and wash the poultice materials after each use so as to prevent the spread of the infection.

Sun & Earth has a proven history of cruelty - free manufacturing, and is the first company to purchase 100 % wind power, recycles its packaging materials at its factory, and only uses biodegradable and plant - derived ingredients.

With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.

He said the aim of the government is to use the «Planting for Food and Jobs» programme to transform the agricultural sector; and this would be done by increasing productivity of the farm resources centred on small holding activities, to provide job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and to provide raw materials for the industrial sector.

A fire at the Indian Point nuclear plant, about 24 miles north of New York City, was extinguished Saturday night, but the materials used to fight it could prove hazardous if they seep into the Hudson River.

Using a variety of plants, animals, and microbes, the researchers will study the possibility that organisms can influence their own evolution and that inheritance can take place through routes other than the genetic material.

Using these structures as oil absorbers might potentially solve two problems at the same time — the removal of unwanted plants and the production of natural and selective oil sorbent material at low - cost.

For her doctoral work, Kadukova explored new methods of metal sequestration from polluted water using waste plant material and biomass.

She noticed immediately that most of the course materials were based on anecdotal evidence, particularly when it came to the use of plant extracts as pesticides.

But patents are more restrictive, says Niels Louwaars, director of Plantum, a plant breeder's association in Gouda, the Netherlands: «When one trait in a plant is patented, you are in principle not allowed under the research exemption to use such materials for further breeding» without the patent holder's permission, he says.

The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action in Geneva used drone - created maps to estimate the amount of toxic material released from ore - processing plants in Kyrgyzstan, for example.

Through reduced tillage in farming — no - till being the prime example — and systems using cover crops and residue, those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials and stored in the soil.

The metal in the glove — used to protect those handling radiological materials such as plutonium — likely acted as a catalyst for a chemical reaction generating heat, said Wirth, chairman of the committee, which oversees the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to make biofuels, which may drive down the cost of biofuel production.

Other examples include bone that shows signs of human modification, fire cracked rocks from a hearth or plant material used for food.

Aromatherapy,, commonly associated with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), is the use of volatile liquid plant materials, known as essential oils (EOs), and other aromatic compounds from plants to affect someone's mood or health.

«It used the peg - like front teeth to scrape plants off of rocks on the sea floor, and then it opened its mouth and sucked in the bits of plant material.

Researchers at JBEI pioneered the use of ionic liquids, salts that are liquid at room temperature, to tackle the deconstruction of plant material because of the efficiency with which the solvent works.

Already, the former head of CNNC, Kang Rixin, will spend the rest of his life in prison due to corruption related to the unparalleled nuclear power plant expansion, which may call into question the safety of the materials used.

Using a laser and a tiny piece of reflective material on the leaf of the plant, Cocroft was able to measure the movement of the leaf in response to the chewing caterpillar.

The researchers also tested the different microbes» performance with minimal pretreatment of the plant materials, indicating it may be possible to reduce or eliminate use of heat and chemicals that make the feedstock accessible to biological processing.

For the ancient DNA analysis, the team used methods pioneered by paleogeneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen to recover and sequence genetic material left behind in sediments even after the plants that originally contained it have disintegrated.

The mechanism that Agrobacterium uses to incorporate its own T - DNA in the genetic material of plants forms the basis of the GMO technology.

Their study of photosynthesis in green sulfur bacteria, published in 2007 in Nature, tracked the detailed chemical steps that allow plants to harness sunlight and use it to convert simple raw materials into the oxygen we breathe and the carbohydrates we eat.

These questions can not be answered using short - term experiments, therefore the Umeå researchers use archives of plant material, and search for traces of processes over decades.

The International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures No. 15 (ISPM 15) is a set of standards developed by the International Plant Protection Convention stipulating how wood packaging material used for international trade, such as pallets and crating, should be treated before export.