Sentences with phrase «waste plastics into»

System for converting waste plastics into oil.

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GreenMantra Recycling, a Toronto - based startup that's found a way of converting plastic waste into industrial waxes, plans two or three rounds of in - person interviews for each new employee, even the most junior.

Launched in 1973 as a plastic injection molder with six employees, Cascade Engineering has blossomed into a diversified manufacturer with 15 business units and a product line that includes waste containers, auto parts, and furniture components — and, more recently, wind turbines, solar panels, and affordable water filters for the developing world.

The New Plastics Economy presents three key platforms: creating an effective after - use plastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to crPlastics Economy presents three key platforms: creating an effective after - use plastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to crplastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to create it.

Tethers Unlimited has been working on a specialized 3D printer that can convert plastic waste — which comprises much of the space debris spinning around in orbit — into filament, or feedstock, or 3D printers.

My job is to grind up the chunky bits and then pour the goop into red plastic medical waste bags.

According to Julian Kirby, lead plastics campaigner at Friends of the Earth UK: «What that really casts into quite serious doubt, I think, is the argument that the food packaging industry use quite often which is that we need plastic to avoid food waste.

There are several industry collaborations that are working to identify technologies to make collection and sortation of flexible packaging waste feasible and economically effective, as well as research into chemical recycling, which degrades the mixed plastics into monomers or basic chemicals to turn into new products.

Yesterday in Orlando, Claudio Gemmiti explained to a packed hall at the Innovation Takes Root conference that the arrival of PῧrPod100 ™ has given consumers what they want — all the benefits in terms of single serve choice and quality without the petroleum - based plastic waste going straight into their garbage cans that has deterred so many consumers.

Besides recycling paper, plastic and other trash, the Atlantis Casino also gives its organic waste such as peels and skins to a company that turns it into compost and sells it as fertilizer to local farmers.

While collecting waste plastic from the sea to recycle into new packaging can raise consumer awareness, it won't solve the problem.

As popular media focuses unprecedented attention on the issue of plastic waste, stakeholders across industry have continued working to integrate polymers into the circular economy model.

Plastic trash in the ocean threatens to outweigh the fish population by 2050... and with over 500,000 single - use plastic straws thrown away every day, we can be sure that a significant amount of that plastic waste can be attributed to these lightweight items that easily are blown into thePlastic trash in the ocean threatens to outweigh the fish population by 2050... and with over 500,000 single - use plastic straws thrown away every day, we can be sure that a significant amount of that plastic waste can be attributed to these lightweight items that easily are blown into theplastic straws thrown away every day, we can be sure that a significant amount of that plastic waste can be attributed to these lightweight items that easily are blown into theplastic waste can be attributed to these lightweight items that easily are blown into the ocean.

Henkel is partnering with Waste Free Oceans to remove plastic waste from oceans and rivers, and transform it into bottles for its Lovables laundry brand.

Unilever is looking into a technology that converts PET plastic waste back into virgin grade material for use in food packaging.

Unilever is entering into a new partnership with the aim of developing a technology to convert plastic PET waste back into virgin grade material for use in food packaging.

First you simply shake the solid waste into the toilette and put the diaper into a plastic - lined bucket each time you change your baby.

A small proportion of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the bed and the wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who rolled out of bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top of the bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.

(the first called «Flowback» and thereafter called «Produced waste»)(40 % of the hazardous waste remains underground going into aquifers, cracks, sideways, upwards, etc, etc, no one knows) Most of the first «Flowback» is stored in plastic - lined pits nearby.

With this closed - loop system, Dell uses fewer natural resources by «leveraging consumer recycling programs to recover waste electronics, and the plastics from those products are being recycled into new Dell products,» said Scott O'Connell, the company's director of environmental affairs.

«An ocean of plastic: Magnitude of plastic waste going into the ocean calculated.»

The researchers are now looking into developing a large - scale commercial model of the process, in partnership with Ronin8, a Richmond, B.C. recycling company that separates the different plastics, fibres and metals in electronic waste streams without using toxic chemicals or losing precious metals.

The Navy has financed research into compactors, shredders and plastics processors as well as more exotic concepts such as molten salt and plasma arc incinerators that would treat a ship's waste while it is at sea.

Indonesia, however, has less advanced waste management and often disposes of plastic waste directly into coastal regions.

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«Magnitude of plastic waste going into the ocean calculated: 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans per year.»

As Indonesia's capital struggles with a mounting trash problem, one local man is taking matters into his own hands by recycling plastic waste into fuel for his scooter.

Plastic debris degrades into ever - smaller pieces, which means that a wider range of organisms can ingest this material, and particles of microplastic are now the most abundant form of solid - waste pollution on our planet.

In the 1930s, the plastics manufacturing company Chisso began dumping waste, including methylmercury, into the Minamata Bay in Japan.

A team of self - described geeks in Taipei has taken to the streets on a bicycle equipped with a 3D printer which they're using to turn plastic waste into useful products.

Researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University have found a way of converting waste carbon dioxide into a molecule that forms the basis of making plastics.

«We are planning to implement this finding into a viable way to get rid of plastic waste, working towards a solution to save our oceans, rivers, and all the environment from the unavoidable consequences of plastic accumulation,» Bertocchini says.

University of Adelaide researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high - tech nanomaterial.

The real «Mr. Fusion,» or «tactical hybrid refinery» to use Army - speak, processes the waste produced by a typical kitchen — food, plastics, paper — into fuel that runs a standard diesel generator.

The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.

Plugging their data into models that account for the range of plastic waste entering the ocean via different coastal populations, the researchers arrived at their estimated 11.1 billion pieces of coral - entangling plastic.

In addition, HB335 ensures manufacturing facilities that convert these post-use plastics into liquid fuels, chemicals, waxes and lubricants are not wrongly classified as solid waste management facilities.

Disposal TCOP will utilize plastic - to - fuel conversion systems on board collection vessels to transform plastic into diesel fuel eliminating the need to dispose of the waste in a landfill and providing fuel for collection operations.

Plastics can enter into the marine environment a number of ways: through ineffective or improper waste management, intentional or accidental dumping and littering on shorelines or at sea, or through storm water runoff.

Study Finds Rising Levels of Plastics in Oceans Photo Some eight million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world's oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the next decade unless nations take strong measures to dispose of their trash responsibly, new research suggests.

Photo Some eight million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world's oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the next decade unless nations take strong measures to dispose of their trash responsibly, new research suggests.

Responsible owners pick up after their dog, but in doing so, put waste that is 100 % biodegradable into plastic bags that can take more than 100 years to decompose.

This short video shows how «waste» can be re-used and made into toys like this plastic bottle car.

This will grant you the convenience plastic offers and the pleasure of saving money that you would have wasted on impulse buying directly into the bank.

This patented vegetable blend addresses the plastic pollution crisis in the pet industry and works to turn pet waste into a highgrade compost to beautify our environment.

Innovative new methods of repurposing material or plastic into bed filling, or batting, are allowing pet - bed manufacturers to limit waste and provide comfortable pet furniture.

If mixed, the waste will decompose into air pollution and the animal can eat toxic plastic waste.

First EcoDomum starts by collecting used plastic waste of any kind, then sorting it into the type that will melt without releasing toxic fumes.

Norton Point buys its used plastic through the Plastic Bank, a Vancouver - based social enterprise that turns plastic waste collection into a valuable source of income for locals by paying them a livinplastic through the Plastic Bank, a Vancouver - based social enterprise that turns plastic waste collection into a valuable source of income for locals by paying them a livinPlastic Bank, a Vancouver - based social enterprise that turns plastic waste collection into a valuable source of income for locals by paying them a livinplastic waste collection into a valuable source of income for locals by paying them a living wage.

A 40 - foot shipping container platform holds a complete mobile waste recycling plant capable of upcycling plastic and fabric waste into architectural tiles.