Sentences with phrase «waste from»

The campaign in Chittagong confirmed our suspicion that there is a similar problem associated with shipbreaking, as with similar findings made in poor countries that receive large amounts of electrical and electronic waste from the rich world.

German sporting and dog magazine Wild und Hund reports that thousands of domestic and wild animals are falling ill from tainted waste from green «climate - friendly» biogas plants, which is then used as an agricultural fertilizer in fields.

Several lawsuits are already underway and various other actions will be taken during the next few years to stop any waste from going to Nevada.

TRU waste from West Valley was not included in the permit application, nor in the permit issued.

And as newer versions of organs on chips get better at mimicking the function of real organs — a kidney's ability to filter waste from the bloodstream, for example — the devices themselves may find their way into humans, replacing or augmenting underperforming organs.

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

The TRU waste from West Valley was not included in the Transuranic Waste Baseline Inventory Report (Revision 3), June 1996, which provided the inventory information for the performance assessment used to certify that WIPP meets EPA disposal requirements, pursuant to the WIPP Act, Section 8 (d).

These landfill sites include a wave of new operations designed to attract solid and hazardous waste from outside the state.

For this process, the substrate (entity being modified) was the kitchen waste; the inoculum (organism used to start a reaction) is the waste from the sugar industry.

Specifically, rock salt provides isolation of the waste from groundwater due to its low hydraulic conductivity.

More efficient catalysts, sensors, and separators that last longer and work harder could reduce the energy demands and waste from manufacturing plants and refineries.

When the time comes, we will help safely decommission and manage the waste from legacy facilities.

Regulators say redundant layers of protection usually prevent waste from getting that far, but EPA data shows that in the three years analyzed by ProPublica, more than 7,500 well test failures involved what federal water protection regulations describe as «fluid migration» and «significant leaks.»

Between 2008 and 2011, state regulators reported 150 instances of what the EPA calls «cases of alleged contamination,» in which waste from injection wells purportedly reached aquifers.

(Another agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, regulates injection wells for waste from other industries.)

If one layer leaks, the next blocks the waste from spreading before it reaches groundwater.

Sleep serves to reenergize the body's cells, clear waste from the brain, and support learning and memory.

He also has come out in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline and against Interior regulations to limit methane waste from oil and gas wells.

For four decades, waste from nearby manufacturing plants flowed into the waters of New Bedford Harbor — an 18,000 - acre estuary and busy seaport.

Although the review pointed to a possible need for radioactive licensing and disposal for certain materials, and it looked at other states with laws aimed at radioactive waste from drilling, the DEC said there is no precedent for examining how these radioactive materials might affect the environment when brought to the surface at the volumes and scale expected in New York.

Transatomic Power Corp., a nuclear energy startup, is developing a reactor that runs on waste from existing reactors.

The Navy agreed to house the animals in enclosures when they are not patrolling, which will prevent their waste from seeping into Hood Canal, and if temperatures drop below 52 degrees the dolphins» enclosure will automatically be heated, according to the environmental impact statement report.

And within a century after that, melting could begin to release waste stored at the camp, including sewage, diesel fuel, persistent organic pollutants like PCBs, and radiological waste from the camp's nuclear generator, which was removed during decommissioning.

Plutonium Pyramids Hematite, a shiny black mineral sometimes used to make jewelry, can soak up plutonium and uranium waste from nuclear plants.

Heavy spring rains washed chicken waste from outdoor coops into village streams where children drank and played.

During Tuesday's hearing, for instance, Zinke told Sen. John Barrasso he would support the Wyoming Republican's effort to scrap a recently finalized BLM rule to limit methane waste from oil and gas drilling.

They called in the Department of Environmental Management (DEM), and they learned it was very heavily contaminated with arsenic, with a lot of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and with other things contained in waste from a manufactured gas plant.

The U.K. is considering a plan to build two of General Electric's PRISM fast reactors, the latest in a series of fast - reactor designs that for several decades have attempted with mixed success to handle plutonium and other radioactive waste from nuclear power.

In addition to not needing to refuel between flights, a nuclear - powered airplane in theory would not pollute the environment as long as the radioactive waste from its reactor could be contained (the Air Force's project never progressed far enough to come up with a practical way to address this).

Processing and safely storing waste from the chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries can cost hundreds, even thousands, of dollars per ton — which makes illegal disposal highly profitable.

It's in areas where there are lots of cattle (and the large amountsof manure they inevitably give back to the world) that companies are bestequipped to divert animal waste from contaminating the air (via methane, CO2, and ammonia gases) and water towards fueling ethanol production.

Unlike the waste from conventional nuclear power plants, which remains radioactive for tens of thousands of years, the by - products of fusion decay within decades.

Non-food waste is shipped out of Antarctica for disposal, as is all waste from British bases on the continent.

That is about 20 kilometres southeast of the proposed burial site of at least 25 000 tonnes of highly radioactive spent fuel and high - level waste from the US's -LSB-...]

Bagasse is constituted by organic waste from malt, never experiencing modifications afterwards.

The researchers studied fresh waste from the fish.

C2CNT of Ashburn, Va., is making carbon nanotubes; Carbicrete of Montreal is producing carbon - negative concrete using waste from steel production; Carbon Upcycling Technologies of Calgary, Alberta, is making enhanced graphic nanoparticles and graphene derivatives; CERT of Toronto is producing building blocks of industrial chemicals; and Newlight Technologies of Huntington Beach, Calif., is making bioplastic.

Far from idle time, slumber not only helps us consolidate memories, it also may flush out toxic waste from the central nervous system.

So they have managed to create centralized power plants to create electricity and the heat waste from that process is used for desalinating water.

Last year, some 100 New York restaurants signed up for a pilot composting program and former mayor Michael Bloomberg had announced plans to collect organic waste from households.

EnvironVeolia and Suez Environnement are investing in biogas - fired power plants to recycle organic waste from the likes of food maker Danone and grocer Carrefour.

As worries over the vast scale of waste from this plastic has grown, so has the use of purportedly «degradable» forms of it.

«The goal of the project is to demonstrate our potential at Kansas State University to initiate a successful closed - loop recycling and composting program that diverts waste from landfills and produce a beneficial product,» Mladenov said.

China and other emerging economies have overtaken Western nations in dumping old electronic goods, from TVs to cellphones, and will lead a projected 33 percent surge in the amount of waste from 2012 to 2017, a U.N. - backed alliance said on Sunday.

Now, a report in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters takes a look at solid waste from horizontal gas wells.

The study found that some well waste from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania contained radioactive material not previously reported, with the potential for leaching from landfills into the environment.

Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills.

Orbital Sciences has docked a craft with the space station and a SpaceX rocket failed a reusability test — but could still help cut waste from space flight

AKI is a condition in which the kidneys fail to filter waste from the blood.

Running a fusion reactor creates a small amount of short - lived radioactive waste that decays away in around a century; high - level waste from traditional nuclear reactors can stick around for thousands of years.