Sentences with phrase «volume of waste produced»

Equally the sheer volume of waste produced by fast - fashion is completely unnecessary because nobody needs new clothes every week.

If food prices were to rise again, it is likely that there would be a decrease in the volume of waste produced by consumers in developed countries.

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Recycling is encouraged through a north side / south side competition to produce the greatest volume of recyclable waste.

Some of the new nuclear science research programs, including the one at MIT, are studying new reactor designs and fuel cycles that scientists (and policy - makers) hope will make nuclear plants safer and cheaper to operate, and produce waste materials with smaller volume, shorter half - lives, and less appeal to terrorists and other would - be nuclear powers.

In addition, the extraction of coal, from West Virginia to Wyoming, devastates the physical environment, and its processing and combustion produce gigantic volumes of waste.

U.S. low - level waste comes from a wide range of places, including hospitals and laboratories, but the greatest — and most toxic — volume is produced by the Energy Department and the 104 commercial nuclear reactors.

But in processing the waste, about six times the original volume of waste is produced, he said.

Then, the volume flow in the plant can be doubled, utilization of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100 %, and a large amount of usable waste heat will be produced by the catalyst (PtG operation).

Australians produce a much greater volume of waste per head of population than Europeans, and packaging accounts for a large fraction of this.

These consolidated operations produce food in high volume but lead to excessive waste created by large concentrations of animals, often handled in ways that can pollute air and water.