All
the waste used in the project (it takes about 6500 filled bottles to build a two classroom school) is collected from the local community, and surrounding areas.
Not exact matches
The firm has amassed a portfolio of diverse
projects, from a
waste drop - off station
in Edmonton to a mixed -
use concourse
in Memphis, Tenn..
In 2014, Unilever issued a «green bond,» offering clarity and transparency around the
use of proceeds, including a set of clearly defined criteria on greenhouse gas emissions, water
use and
waste disposal for the
projects funded.
Another municipal
waste - to - energy
project —
using technology available
in Australasia — is designed to convert more than 65,000 tons of mixed organic
waste a year into environmentally harmonious green energy and dry fertilizer.
We aim to establish
projects that will deliver continual gains
in our environmental performance, particularly improvements related to energy and water
use, greenhouse gas emissions,
waste and water quality.
In 2001, he launched another social venture, The Campus Kitchens Project, aimed at scaling our approach nationally by engaging college students in recovering wasted food from dining halls that they could use in preparing meals for their own communit
In 2001, he launched another social venture, The Campus Kitchens
Project, aimed at scaling our approach nationally by engaging college students
in recovering wasted food from dining halls that they could use in preparing meals for their own communit
in recovering
wasted food from dining halls that they could
use in preparing meals for their own communit
in preparing meals for their own community.
Claim: The
use of single - sourcing and non-transparent procurement processes for even, large, capital - intensive, complex,
projects has led to billions of dollars being
wasted, sometimes
in shady deals that suggest corrupt motives on the part of some parties.
A Buffalo - based company specializing
in the creation of sustainable environments is
using animal
waste from the Zoo
in its composts, which
in turn are being
used for numerous
projects in the Buffalo area.
Though the letter does not explicitly say so, the Council members are referring to a PEG or Program to Eliminate the Gap, which was
used by prior administrations to identify ways of reducing expenses, eliminating
waste, and boosting revenue to close
projected gaps
in the budget.
The
project demonstrated the possibility of cultivating algae by
using carbon dioxide source
in the summer, when light is available and
waste sugar
in the winter.
For examples,
in Seattle, one
project used electronic tags to track the movement of more than 2,000
waste items - ranging from recyclable materials to old electronics - to see how far they traveled across the U.S..
Instead, the law directs the agency to run 10 pilot
projects across the country
in which dredged sediment will be
used to restore and protect coastlines instead of being dumped as
waste, often at sea.
The overarching aim of this
project is to develop routes for the production of platform chemicals and bio-surfactants from
waste biomass, integrating state of the art technologies for biomass activation,
in - situ catalysis (
using new functional materials) and separation
in one - pot processes.
By telling residents how disposable chopsticks will be recycled into paper material, how aluminum cans will be sold for 155 yen, and how glasses and ceramics will be crushed and
used in construction
projects, the Zero
Waste Academy is involving them
in the process and creating a community around
waste disposal.
They have a commitment to zero
waste,
use recycled materials
in their packaging where they can, produce their own sustainability reports and operate their «Mountain Rose River
Project» which is committed to improving and restoring rivers across the nation.
A cash cow is of no
use for the owners / shareholders if most of the money is not given to them via dividends but invested — rather
wasted —
in futile
projects.
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Pilot
projects have been started where vacuum toilets suck
waste away for
use in biogas plats to generate energy.
Under the Agreement, CMT will pursue a least - cost strategy for feedstock supply made possible by the
project site's proximity to feedstock sources and the flexibility of BlueFire's process to
use a wide spectrum of cellulosic
waste materials
in pure or mixed forms.
This research
project, funded by the European Union and implemented by 8 universities coordinated by Wageningen University (Netherlands), studied the agri - food system
in 7 European city - regions, focusing on: i) short food chain initiatives, ii) water and
wastes recycling, iii) multifunctional land
use, and iv) related social and institutional innovation.
The Fulton, Miss.
project will allow BlueFire to
use green and wood
wastes available
in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year.
In late 2013, GM joined with Detroit Renewable Energy to announce a renewable energy
project to turn solid municipal
waste from the metropolitan Detroit area into process steam that will be
used to heat and cool portions of Detroit - Hamtramck assembly plant, home of the Chevrolet Volt.
This is a part of Portland's «Poop to Power»
project, which was created to turn
waste into clean energy and
use natural gas
in heavy - duty trucks.
Biodiesel made from
waste streams like
used restaurant oils is one part of UCS's plan to reduce
projected U.S. oil
use in half
in 20 years.
JCM
projects use Japanese technological expertise to deploy various approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as the installation of energy - efficient transmission lines
in Mongolia; the installation of energy - efficient systems
in the national hospitals of Vietnam; the installation of energy - efficient refrigeration at commercial food processing centers
in Indonesia; the installation of solar photovoltaic systems
in the Maldives and Palau; and power generation by
waste heat recovery
in the cement industry
in Indonesia.
EU
project PlasCarb
in exploring the possibility of deriving graphene and hydrogen from food
waste using anaerobic digestion and a microwave plasma process.
Located
in Roosevelt County, Montana, the Culbertson
Waste Heat
project is a GHG emission reduction
project using waste heat from the exhaust of two natural gas compressor stations.
Red was
used to boldly highlight the problem of
waste, and has been
used by rENs
in previous
projects.
In the «Re-sea Me»
project, Hoogvliet's aim was to bring attention to how much fish
waste is generated, and to encourage others to think of new ways to
use this potentially quite beautiful material.
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Knowing that you implemented a new reporting environment
using Business Objects is fine, but knowing that it was an on - schedule,
in - house implementation after two failed consultant
projects that
wasted millions is an entirely different story!