Sentences with phrase «using paper waste»

«This new eco-friendly cotton aerogel is a major improvement from the aerogel that our team had previously developed using paper waste.

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To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

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.

We are also committed to reducing waste and paper usage in our workplaces — our internal Get Up & Get Green program eliminates garbage bins at employees» desks and encourages them to use centralized sorting bins.

God's promises were never meant to be thrown aside as waste paper; he intended that they should be used.

Flatten the ball onto the greaseproof paper and either shape into a round flat biscuit, or using a heart shaped cutter press the dough into a heart shape (adding the offcuts to the next biscuit so they don't get wasted!)

There is an abundance of wasted paper when using single serve packets, not to mention the mess it causes!

I feel sad, ripped off and have a wasted piece of paper using high cost ink in printer.

For example, French's manufacturing site in Springfield, Mo. sends zero waste to landfills by recycling all excess plastic and paper materials and contributing food waste to be used as animal feed.

I found it helpful to use the wrapper from the stick of butter, which I had already dropped into the bowl I would melt it in over the water on the stove, being concerned concerned about making it too hot in the microwave for the recipe, to smear a large pinch of butter without making a mess of my fingers or wasting a paper towel and butter that would be absorbed (probably used between 1/2 and 3/4 tbsp, but I did not measure).

Line a 9 x 13 inch baking dish with either parchment paper (or you can use a silicone baking mat like I did to eliminate waste).

The breath - taking use of an otherwise wasted material has caused equal pride and intrigue amongst staff at the Cumbrian paper mill.

We try to cut down the amount of waste we produce — we've eliminated most of our paper towel use (it takes us a couple months to go through one roll now), and we wash and reuse resealable plastic bags.

You know, I've actually used a bit more paper towels lately, since I buy 100 % post consumer waste ones, and they are now compostable in Louisville....

Hubby and I are both teachers, and we started using waste paper (like old worksheets headed to the trash) from our classes to drain greasy foods on.

We were already using cloth napkins but the waste paper concept has helped us be papertowel free.

At our school we have a «no waste» policy at lunch, which means no disposable containers, no paper napkins or throw away utensils, etc. (well, you can use them, but you have to take it all home.

We've been using Nature's Kloth instead of a sponge and replacing the way we clean with paper towels to create less waste.

You can do this with a diaper sprayer (think of a kitchen sink sprayer that attaches to the back of your toilet), or you can use a rice paper liner (they look like a dryer sheet) and put the waste easily into the toilet.

They pump clean water from your pipes, through the hose and can be used to spray the solid waste off of cloth diapers and into the toilet — the same job I do with a piece of toilet paper.

One usefull advice DO NOT BUY CHEAP PAPER TOWEL you will just waste money they glue together and get all soggy if you choose a brand that holds a lot of water i preffer the «washable» kind as those sturdy ones are much easier to use and take apart

I don't have any answers to your questions, but I've been using the family cloth for pee and it's made me feel much better about my paper waste production.

This isn't taking into account the electricity, wastewater, soap, etc., used in either situation, as well as other energy / waste issues related with toilet paper, such as packaging, transport, chlorine, etc..

If you don't want to waste paper products or if you'd prefer to add more color, use ribbon instead.

Except for the paper napkin I pack (I guess I should be using these) and the occasional wrapper, we're pretty much waste - free at this point.

Using cloth involves one extra small step: I take the solid waste and flush it down the toilet — this involves either a gentle shake or a bit of toilet paper to help it off.

In addition, critics of the ban claim the next alternative to polystyrene packaging, paper, does not recycle and insulates badly, leading to using greater amounts for hot drinks and thus more cost and waste.

Governor Cuomo announced that green policies at state agencies saved New York taxpayers $ 19.6 million in the first five years, while also reducing paper use and waste and increasing recycling.

The work and pensions secretary used an article in the Telegraph paper to mount a sustained attack on the New Labour government's «sorry story of dependency, wasted taxpayers» money and fraud».

«A fee on single - use paper and plastic disposable bags is the right way to reduce plastic bag waste in New York City,» he maintained.

Governor Cuomo announced that implementation of green policies at state agencies have saved New York taxpayers $ 13 million while substantially reducing paper use and waste, and increasing recycling.

This is a fluidized bed reactor, an energy - generation technology that has been used for decades to power paper mills and waste - treatment plants but that had never before been installed in an ethanol plant.

Kimberly - Clark Dallas, TX Consumer Products 223 million green kWh, 7 % of total power used The maker of paper products from Kleenex to Huggies has landed on the list simply by putting waste to good use.

To address environmental concerns, commercial vegetable growers are increasingly interested in using organic mulches derived from agricultural or urban byproducts and waste, paper - based mulches, and biodegradable plastic films and fabrics as alternatives.

Until then Range Fuels will source its wood chips from whole trees — not a waste product at all, but a commodity used to make paper pulp.

In writing about the use of second - generation biomass, such as plant waste and paper, to produce biofuels, Helen Knight did...

The Earth Island Institute, among other groups concerned about forest loss due to paper consumption, would instead like to see more research into using agricultural waste to make paper instead of wood pulp or bamboo.

The real «Mr. Fusion,» or «tactical hybrid refinery» to use Army - speak, processes the waste produced by a typical kitchen — food, plastics, paper — into fuel that runs a standard diesel generator.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

«The sensing skin could be used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.

«This new material is better than the traditional material, Bismuth telluride, and can be used for waste heat conversion into electricity much more efficiently,» said Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair professor of physics at UH and the lead author of a paper describing the discovery, published online by Nano Energy.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

«This very detailed paper shows that there is strong potential to use enzyme technology to help with society's growing waste problem by breaking down some of the most commonly used plastics.

By telling residents how disposable chopsticks will be recycled into paper material, how aluminum cans will be sold for 155 yen, and how glasses and ceramics will be crushed and used in construction projects, the Zero Waste Academy is involving them in the process and creating a community around waste disposal.

We print locally in wind - powered facilites in Portland, OR using 100 % recycled, post-consumer waste paper and vegetable - based inks (when we can).

However, with that said, I jsut think that there's a lot of wasted potential here with what seemed to be, on paper, to be an incredibly interesting concept that was used on what ended up being a substandard horror flick.

Students love using whiteboard pens and you won't be wasting paper if they can reuse the same template throughout the whole unit and during revision.

I was tired of wasting time getting paper out and sharpening pencils so I said «just write on your tables using...

Worked around the premise of Go4Broke (use for waste paper), students get a real life work scenario and the sessions work best with large groups of 40 - 50 students.

They use less energy (up to 50 % savings), less paper and there is less packaging waste (around 90 % less).