Sentences with phrase «waste materials found»

Not exact matches

When Kuepfer initially reckoned he could find new uses for all the waste vinyl at Canadian General Tower, where he was working as an inspector, the company's waste - management manager was only too happy to give him the material for free.

It also presents new research finding that $ 11 billion of recyclable materials are wasted annually in the U.S.

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.

We find contamination in our clinical waste and our domestic waste all of the time, so we know for certain that there are recyclable materials going into our waste streams.»

From reducing waste through smarter packaging, finding more energy efficient solutions or sourcing more recyclable materials, visitors will have the chance to learn about the sustainability challenges and opportunities facing the packaging industry.

Whether it's reducing waste through smarter packaging, finding more energy efficient solutions or sourcing more recyclable materials, sustainability is the hot industry topic at the moment and will form the basis of the Ecopack Theatre.

At TOMRA Sorting, we recognize that to recover these materials, waste sorting operators need to find economic and reliable solutions.

Whether it's reducing waste through smarter packaging, finding more energy efficient solutions or sourcing more recyclable materials, attendees at the UK's largest packaging show will, once again, be able to discover and learn more about the sustainability challenges and opportunities facing the packaging industry.

By using TOMRA Sorting you will find that we recover many types of valuable materials from the waste sorting stream and sort them efficiently according to the specific needs of our customers.

At my house there is never a shortage of green material (also known as wet or nitrogen - rich matter)-- orange peels, corn husks, dinner food scraps, yard waste, etc. — for my compost bin, but when it comes to finding brown (also known as dry or carbon - rich) material, in the past I've often ended up coming up short.

«On a microscopic scale various layers of cement appear, and each one provides information on the moment when they precipitated, the conditions that existed, etc.» Secondly, they analysed the materials trapped in these cements where «we found foundry slag from the industrial revolution, even waste bearing the seals of European companies that used to dump their slag when they arrived with their vessels.

A variety of microplastics collected from composted waste in Germany included polyethylene spheres (A), which are used in paints and coatings; PVC fragments (B), used widely in construction materials, electronics and vehicles; bits of polyethylene (C and D), which is found in bags, containers and bottles; polyester fibers (E); and polypropylene (F), used in bags, packaging and textiles.

Holuszko, who co-founded UBC's urban mining innovation centre — a unit focused on reclaiming valuable metals and other materials from electronic waste — was determined to find a better recycling solution.

The current situation offers us an opportunity to find new solutions to our waste problem, increase the proportion of recycled plastic in our own manufactured products, improve the quality of recovered materials and to use recycled material in new ways.

An EPA review of 27 states found that none required regular air monitoring of fracking and other waste materials that could emit benzene and toluene

A few studies have found naturally occurring radioactive materials in the solid waste, but the research only focused on several long - lived radioactive isotopes including uranium - 238 and radium - 226.

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.

Conducted by Zainab Ngaini and colleagues at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, the study found that when sago waste (consisting primarily of cellulose and lignin) is chemically modified using fatty acid derivatives, the resulting material is more hydrophobic than untreated sago waste, implying that it has less affinity for water and an excellent affinity for oil.

Researchers at the Ruhr - Universität Bochum have found a way to turn climate - damaging CO2 into an alcohol that could serve as a raw material for the chemical industry — without producing large amounts of salt waste that usually arise.

Adapted to their very hot but watery environment, these microbes metabolized hydrogen - rich compounds or dead or live organic materials to derive the energy that sustains anaerobic life, including sulfate - reducing bacteria that produce Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), fermentative bacteria that produce carbon dioxide and alcohol -LRB-- OH), and methanogenic bacteria — the methanogens found in sewage and mudflats today — that produce methane (CH4) gas as a waste product.

The MIT Study found that reprocessing and recycling plutonium — which creates weapon - usable material and some of the most radioactive waste in the world — is also uneconomic and likely to remain so for decades to come.

The Parley material is made of plastic waste that is found in the ocean.

Thus, whenever someone is genuinely stuck, they can reference a knowledge map, find the corresponding Subject Matter Expert, and ask them for a consultation instead of wasting time looking for answers in training materials and courses.

Using waterproof cover materials and a filling made from recycled plastic bottles, Cycle Dog finds alternate uses for waste, but this was not the brand's only goal.

To be successful, we have to provide good service to our wood suppliers, balance the supply coming in with the market for products going out and find customers for every portion of the raw material so none goes to waste or to the landfill.

Evoking the rebellious post-Pop aesthetic of New York, Laska often incorporates recycled waste materials and found objects into her paintings, sometimes reworking parts of earlier canvases entirely.

For this exhibition, Yeapanis has reduced her material choices and palette to colors found in three, regularly discarded types of material: tan - colored cardboard boxes and shipping tubes, multi-colored plastic dog waste bags, and the ivory tones of raw hand - spun wool.

The exhibition also considers how artists explore discarded materials including waste and its receptacles: Gabriel Kuri's sculpture consists of precariously stacked wire bins, while the photographs by William Eggleston and Richard Wentworth capture beauty in the everyday, depicting a colourful dumpster and a found assemblage of trash bags respectively.

For many homegrown artists, that means using found objects, even waste materials, to represent the clash of the two opposing worlds.

The artistic roots of picking up waste material can be found in Dadaism and n the «40s and «50s other artists followed, such as Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, César, Arman or Daniel Spoerri.

Jim Lambie (b. 1964, Glasgow, Scotland) collects the material for his energetic and colorful artworks from different sources: everyday objects, flea - market findings, bulky waste, Oxfam stores.

Her mise - en - scene landscapes, installations, and environments are created out of disturbing arrangements of waste, food and found materials.

By finding new customers for unwanted materials, waste can be diverted from landfill and expensive disposal charges reduced.

One major step on the pathway to a circular economy is finding ways to transform waste materials into feedstock for other products, whether that's as a raw material for production, or as a «fuel» for generating energy.

While many of us make efforts to recycle aluminum and glass, you may be surprised to find out over 50 % of landfills are construction waste and building materials.

Indeed, reading background material can seem like a waste of time when one is in treasure - search mode.113 And yet we know the truth: the less you know, the less you can usually find, particularly when researching online.114 But this important category of authority can come to the fore in a non-linear research strategy.

Second, Ontario contends that the trial judge erred in law in finding that it breached the standard of care because there was no evidence a reasonable person in the 1960s would have foreseen the risk a deposit of waste material 60 feet away would contaminate the well water and cause harm to animals.

[5] Finally, Ontario attacks the trial judge's finding that it had a duty in the 1980s and 1990s to eliminate the harmful effects of the buried waste material and that it breached this duty.

Examples of Buying Assistant duties are purchasing raw materials, conducting research on new products, finding the best offers, maintaining stocks, negotiating with suppliers, making recommendations to buyers, and minimizing waste.