Sentences with phrase «virgin materials»

It requires less mining of virgin material to be used in the manufacturing process and reduces the amount of batteries consumers need to power their devices, which results in less waste.

Most new plastic bottles are made from virgin material because it's less expensive for the manufacturer.

Two recent advances could hold promise for tackling food waste, reducing CO2 emissions and reliance on virgin materials.

This young company proves how unnecessary virgin materials are when we've got an ocean full of plastic that can be recycled.

If the product were made of excessive packaging that used a lot of virgin materials, it would get a red dot.

Made from virgin materials that require resource - intensive manufacturing processes, reusable water bottles aren't the perfect solution that you may think.

By focusing on turning trash into treasure, Pentatonic aims to demonstrate a better way forward for home furnishings than the standard of using virgin materials to create relatively short - lived products.

Preventing useful materials from heading to the landfill carries obvious environmental benefits, such as shrinking the C&D waste stream and reducing the need for virgin materials in new construction.

Medela only uses new, virgin materials in manufacturing of all products.

According to this story in ISRAEL21c, Levin has designed «eye - candy» lamps that adhere adhering to the principles of sustainable design: recycling, reuse of materials and reducing the amount of virgin material needed for the production of his lights and furniture, he said.

And these same yoga accessories that are meant to improve our personal lives might actually have the opposite effect our environment, considering that many of them are made with virgin materials that are not only nonrenewable in nature, but are also made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and include other undesirables such as phthalates, lead, and cadmium, and are not the easiest things to recycle at the end of their lives.

For instance, what if Patagonia works with retailers and consumers to recycle clothing that has been too worn to be resold and then sells the used materials back to its upstream suppliers at a lower price than comparable virgin materials?

The paper, metal, plastic and glass that recyclers collect, sort and sell competes against so - called virgin materials.

There is almost too much here to take in: tax incentives, export controls, forestry policy, waste reduction and recycling proposals, CO2 taxes, electrical co-generation, virgin materials fees... There is even a discussion of energy - saving light bulbs and how to market them more efficiently.

Even the plastic yogurt containers recycled by responsible companies like Preserve into toothbrushes and kitchenware are actually downcycled since the manufacturers of the yogurt containers continue to extract virgin materials for their disposable products.

As the price of virgin materials continues to climb, and it becomes harder to open new landfills, being the company that makes something out of nothing will become a better place to be.

By reclaiming some of the battery materials (zinc, manganese and steel, for instance), fewer virgin materials are needed, which can offset part of the environmental impact of resource extraction.

In China, it probably means that they will be consuming a lot more virgin materials.

Until it costs phone manufacturers more to get virgin material than to recycle it properly, this issue will continue to plague us and manufacturers will not prioritize the design of phones that can be easily dismantled and reused.

«The total cost of mining virgin materials, for instance, involves not only the cost of materials and labor, but also the environmental cost at the mining site, the environmental costs (such as air pollution and its associated health care costs) of transporting these materials to the building site, and the environmental costs of building the equipment to mine and transport material and build the roads.»

The inner layer uses virgin material to minimize the migration of impurities into the filled product.

The new bottle is manufactured using more than 25 per cent post-consumer «one - way» recycled PET plastic but has the same performance characteristics as a refillable bottle made entirely from virgin material, according to Petainer.

New furniture often relies on virgin materials that introduce the potential for even more pollution

This not only keeps landfills from overflowing but it also displaces some of the need for virgin materials from non-renewable resources (petroleum, old - growth forests, etc.).

«Using recycled or renewable materials in lieu of petroleum - based materials allows Ford to minimize the amount of virgin materials used in the Focus Electric.»

For this to work, Patagonia's price to suppliers would need to be lower than the price suppliers pay for virgin materials.

Virgin materials are recommended for hygienic use or high performance.

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From the most basic environmental point of view, all materials are worth recycling, because this reduces the need for energy - intensive mining and smelting of virgin materials.

As the chief executive of Patagonia, Rose Marcario says, «We are living in a world where there are going to be fewer resources, and there won't always be a wealth of virgin materials.

Ryman avoids creating illusions or references to reality, instead classifying himself as a «realist» due to his commitment to presenting honeslty in virgin materials.

(Right now plastic is so cheap that it's makes more economic sense to use virgin material than to recycle, despite the ecological repercussions.)

love to make it sound as if it's common industry practice, despite the fact that they continue to churn out disgusting amounts of cheap clothes made almost exclusively from virgin materials.

Countries such as China are prepared to pay high prices for recyclables such as waste plastic; mainly because they do not have readily available sources of virgin materials (no indigenous forests or oil supplies) and they have a large manufacturing industry that requires these products.

Its founder put it best: «It seems ludicrous to me that so many products are manufactured from virgin materials, at great cost to our environment, when in so many instances it is entirely unnecessary.»

Since then, the companies have been working with MIT to create a voluntary recycling program where the use of recovered materials such as zinc, manganese and steel offsets the extraction impact of virgin materials.

The liquid products from the coking operation are hydrotreated and mixed back with the virgin materials.

Using recycled plastic to make new products saves 66 percent of the energy over using virgin material

While it is less expensive to make new EPS from recycled content than virgin material, companies are not going to pay for your recycled material unless you can provide it by the truckload.

Two - thirds of all new steel manufactured comes from recycled steel, meaning one - third must still come from virgin material.

According to the UK - based designers, who have done some math to calculate the savings that comes from recycling plastic rather than using virgin materials, the energy savings of the design in comparison to a virgin alternative equates to powering a 60 Watt light bulb for 1483 hours of continuous use — wow!

Much like our old friend bamboo, it seems that cardboard can be used as a replacement for many conventional materials, without chopping down trees or otherwise using virgin materials, and usually incorporates a good deal of recycled material.

But after writing our post on China's ban on accepting plastic waste, Junkyard Planet author Adam Minter noted that instead, Chinese manufacturers were importing, digging or chopping for virgin materials to make up for the loss of supply.

We previously reported that the reuse of 1 tonne of cotton clothing only uses 2.6 % of the energy required to manufacture them from virgin materials.

For example, about 95 percent of the energy used to produce an aluminum can from virgin materials can be saved by using recycled aluminum instead.