Sentences with phrase «waste material such»

In his collages, reliefs, and sculptures, Arp often incorporated waste material such as discarded paper and fabric, and embraced chance and spontaneity as integral components of the artistic process.

They're made out of traditional iron - reinforced concrete beams and columns, but the cinderblocks in the walls are replaced with «eco-bricks» - plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic waste material such as chip packets - that are sandwiched in between chicken wire and covered in cement.

Whether it is hair, skin cells, sweat or waste material such as urine and faeces, you are constantly shedding material that started off as part of you.

From waste materials such as wood chips and corn cobs, UD researchers are extracting sugars that can replace petroleum in the manufacture of thousands of consumer products.

Biodiesel is a renewable green fuel that burns cleaner than gasoline and can be manufactured from low - cost and waste materials such as vegetable oils, animal fats and recycled cooking oil.

Blending is possible with a variety of waste materials such as iron slag, but this solution is focused on and limited to fly ash because it represents about 80 % of suitable waste materials (Karim et al., 2014).

Not exact matches

Clean Harbors finds beneficial uses for your manufacturing by - products, such as creating supplemental fuels created by blending waste or separating out usable materials from disassembled electronic equipment.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

The emotion was partly frustration at the sight of young men caught up in futile studies: «Part of my cross, indeed its heaviest portion, is that I have to see friars born with the highest gifts for fine studies spending their lives and wasting their energies in such play - acting... All my files are filled with material against these books which I consider absolutely useless.

The two trade associations have joined together to call on UK and EU authorities to ensure that «unnecessary» trade barriers and tariffs on the trade of waste materials, such as refuse derived fuel (RDF), are avoided.

The Almond Board of California (ABC) has announced it is currently looking for ways to optimise almond co-products such as almond hulls, shells and other woody materials in order to reduce food waste.

A significant amount of the plastic waste generated by hospitals is a flexible material of some sort, such as sterilization wrap or flexible packaging.

With innovative design, boxes can be right - sized to any product — eliminating wasted space and minimizing the need for void fill materials (such as air pillows, packing peanuts, etc.).

, such as wood for temporary buildings, carton board packaging, paper, effective waste management systems, and renewable materials for arenas.

During the World Ski Championships, a variety of products and solutions based on renewable raw materials will be show casted, such as wood for temporary buildings, carton board packaging, paper, effective waste management systems, and renewable materials for arenas.

The help of a polymer compatibilizer, DuPont ™ Fusabond ®, makes it possible to reuse this mixed material waste stream for products such as rigid or flexible corrugated pipes and automotive lubricant bottles.

There are many factors to concentrate on, such as void fill, box sizes, waste handling, and material advances.

Materials derived primarily from renewable sources such as replenishable agricultural feed stocks, animal sources, marine food processing industry wastes, or microbial sources, and can break down to produce environmentally friendly products such as carbon dioxide, water, and quality compost.

The connection of these two materials is designed in such a way so they can be easily separated after use and disposed of into the correct waste streams.

Independently verified at every stage, the voluntary program sees food manufacturers develop a plan that defines clear targets in key areas of sustainability, such as raw material sourcing, emissions, energy, waste, water, biodiversity and social sustainability.

We are committed to helping transform the recycling system, seek innovations to change the materials we use, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and work to recover the unmanaged waste that is ending up in the environment and, more specifically, our rivers and oceans.

During workouts the muscles produce waste materials, such as lactic acid.

[21] Many design features of modern cloth diapers have followed directly from innovations initially developed in disposable diapers, such as the use of the hour glass shape, materials to separate moisture from skin and the use of double gussets, or an inner elastic band for better fit and containment of waste material.

It seems like such a waste to let those reusable materials sit unused.

The former President said a report in the media that Ghana stood the risk of importing water by 2021 was a reality created by the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste such as plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

Six unauthorized dump sites were evacuated in the Accra Metropolis and in addition, the Ministry will acquire and develop material recovery sites such as waste transfer stations and final disposal sites in every region to ensure the sorting and temporary holding of solid waste prior to treatment at the waste processing plants.

There have been cases where we have certainly needed to know — such as where people are disposing of waste material by dumping it off the coast of Africa.

Another suggestion is that the decline in domestic waste going to landfill has accelerated the closure of a number of less profitable landfill sites and inert material, such as soils and stones, is required to fill the voids and restore these sites.

And now Suh has turned his attention to the question of efficiency — producing more goods with less materials and waste — to examine whether it might provide a natural way out of such pollution.

Almost clueless in the worst cases, such students soon lose their trail and end up wasting precious time searching for material that turns out to be completely irrelevant.

O'Connell said that Dell is also using packaging materials recycled from agricultural waste, such as wheat straw, in its efforts to accelerate innovation - goals echoed by the AAAS Research Competitiveness Program and advanced through its involvement in award programs like the Catalyst Award.

Besides, the results show that the pyrolysis of manure waste has other additional environmental benefits such as reduced soil nutrient leaching and less waste volume, removal of odor and pathogens of the original material.

«Converting waste heat into electric power, for example, using vehicle exhaust, is a near - term «green» application of such materials.»

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

This allows cellulosic materials such as plant stems, wood chips and cardboard waste, as well as other tricky polysaccharides such as insect / crustacean shells, to be broken down.

In partnership with the Universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, and the Open University, the programme will examine issues such as the design of next - generation nuclear reactors, reactor performance, reactor monitoring, materials for nuclear reactors that can withstand high temperatures, and nuclear waste disposal.

Novem calculates that if some 0.5 million hectares of agricultural land were turned over to production of such biomass sources of energy, this would meet around 5 per cent of Dutch energy requirements; this would increase to 12 per cent if waste and refuse materials were used as biomass.

In addition to traditional asphalt concrete and cement concrete, the researchers also assessed several other material alternatives, such as reflective coatings and the use of industrial waste products like slag and fly ash, to replace some of the energy - intensive cement in cement concrete.

Such boreholes could not house most of the country's waste, like fuel rods from nuclear power plants, but could have potential for smaller, long - lived radioactive materials.

Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of California, Davis.

'' [A] nuclear waste repository should not be built until it can be shown, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the facility can, in fact, do what its advocates claim - isolate radioactive materials from the biosphere for more than 10,000 years - and that construction of such a repository will be benign in its effects upon the people, the environment and the economy of the state or region within which it would be located.

Why It Matters: Catalysts are intricate materials designed to increase the efficiency and reduce the waste associated with creating products such as fuels, plastics and pharmaceuticals.

Date: February 3, 2014; Source: University of California - Davis; Summary: Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process.

The feedstock for the new process is levulinic acid, which can be produced by chemical processing of materials such as straw, corn stalks or even municipal green waste.

The boiling kills all bacteria, virus, parasite, and pathogens, and as the steam rises, it leaves behind waste material, useless and harmful inorganic minerals such as calcium, oestradiol, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, organic and inorganic chemicals, radioactive chemicals and other heavier contaminants.

The downside of quercetin is that it blocks the action of a liver enzyme responsible for breaking down waste material and as such can cause drugs and some toxins to stay in the system longer than normal.

The cast like I said, is wasted on such poorly written material, it's a great shame.

Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke do the best they can with such uninspired material, but it's ultimately a waste of their talents.

Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec) teamed up with Qatar Museums to develop a combined arts and science program — spanning primary, secondary and tertiary — where students create «solar art» from reusable materials such as cans, cereal boxes, shoe boxes and other household waste.

Increasingly, schools have their own gardens, where students learn such key skills as mulching (laying materials such as straw on soil to protect it) and vermicomposting (using worms to convert waste to fertilizer).