Not exact matches
While its plants purify 9.5 million cubic metres of
waste water annually, they also
generate a revenue stream for the company.
These incinerators were able to recover energy through burning
waste, using the released heat to boil
water, and using the steam produced to power turbines that
generate electricity.
The Oakey project not only radically improves
waste water quality but also
generates biogas (methane) to replace fossil fuels and lessen environmental impacts.
We also learned how to conserve
water and how to safely manage the different types of
wastes generated at the farm.
With respect to
water that is added (or if the intrinsic
water weight of an item is reduced), users of the FLW Standard are required to report the weight of food loss and
waste that reflects the state in which the food loss and
waste was
generated before
water was added (or before the intrinsic
water weight was reduced).
Nicholas Meat's new facilities will be designed to recover both energy and
water from
waste products
generated on site and significantly reduce the impact of the beef and veal processing plant on the local community.
A similar system is being installed at Nicholas Meat to recover energy and
water from
waste products
generated on - site
Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons is that the methane biogas produced within them is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to
generate energy — rather than
waste water being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.
And lost and
wasted food consumes about one quarter of all
water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and
generates roughly 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Another major benefit of covered anaerobic lagoons with efficient green energy storage is that the methane biogas produced is not only prevented from escaping into the atmosphere (where it is many times more damaging than C02 emissions) but is also harnessed to
generate energy — rather than
waste water plants being heavy consumers of energy in processing and oxygenation.
Food that is ultimately lost or
wasted consumes about one - quarter of all
water used by agriculture each year, requires cropland area the size of China to be grown, and
generates about eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.
The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop processing
waste water streams to simultaneously raise
water quality while
generating methane to replace fossil fuels used in production processes.
p.s. i am under the impression that most
water treatment facilities (aka, sewage plants) actually incinerate the
waste they
generate.
Better for the environment (except for, you know, all that
water...) There have been a few times when traveling that we've used disposable diapers exclusively, and the amount of
waste generated was incredible.
Currently, liquid
waste generated within the region are discharged into open
water bodies due to the lack of a facility to treat it.
The association has managed to reduce daily
water consumption by 39 % since 2007, while nearly half of all solid
waste generated in the building is now being recycled, reported AAAS Building Manager Robert Zayas.
Instead of filling our walls with rusting pipes and ducts, we'd swathe our buildings in engineered bacteria and mold to process our
waste,
generate energy and even purify our
water.
Biodigesters won't quite
generate «1.21 jigawatts» of power (as Doc's Mr. Fusion device seemed to), but they can create fuel for heating, cooking, and electricity while reducing
waste and
water contamination.
But such reactors still require the same electricity -
generating, safety, and
waste disposal systems as the hulking light -
water reactors presently being built as well as identical rigorous licensing requirements, at least in the U.S. — and that may cost them.
A 50-fold increase would be required to make an important difference, which would imply significant capital and energy costs, and it would
generate waste water that would need to be disposed of safely.
Hydrogen fuel cells, which expel only
water and heat as
waste, are an appealing way to
generate clean electricity, but the present technology relies on expensive platinum catalysts.
Currently, garment manufacture
generates 1.8 million tonnes of
waste material — equivalent to 70 kg or 100 pairs of jeans per UK household, with 6.3 billion m ³ of
water used in the process — equivalent to 200,000 litres per year per household or 1,000 filled bathtubs.
From 600 logs of sago palm per day, an estimated 15.6 tons of woody bark, 237.6 tons of
waste water and 7.1 tons of starch fibrous sago pith residue are
generated.
The hydrogen passes through a membrane and combines with oxygen in the fuel cell,
generating electricity and
waste water.
Near the international boundary where Mongolia and China meet Russia east of Lake Baikal, the operations produced approximately 5,000,000 pounds of uranium in 1995 - along with millions of tons of tailings,
waste rock, mine
water and mill processing
water in the
waste streams
generated by the uranium recovery technology.
Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking
water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous
wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.
Bottled
water, which is often tainted with chemicals, is becoming a less popular option due to the
waste generated by the plastic containers.
Last year Victorian school involved with the program saved $ 3.8 million by reducing their energy and
water consumption, and by
generating less
waste.
Teachers and students can choose one of three sustainability challenges which will see them
generating electricity from moving
water,
generating biomethane from food
waste, or conserving
water with sustainable methods.
The YHA was architecturally designed to utilise solar hot
water, rainwater tanks and grey
water recycling, along with a passive solar design and clever zoning techniques to use 50 per cent less energy and
generate 50 per cent less
waste than standard hostels.
Apart from electricity,
water, and the issue of space, different structures will
generate organic and inorganic
waste, air pollution, or increase the risk of disease in the community.
This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear
waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering
water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants
generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..
The containers» clever double - wall design is meant to be filled with
water, which evaporates slowly thanks to the
waste heat
generated by the refrigerator, a process that also lowers the containers» internal temperatures — thus naturally cooling its contents.
Whether you choose actions to curb emissions, save
water, spend more time outdoors,
generate less
waste — or you create your own challenge — you'll be making a world of difference by participating in the EcoChallenge.
You can choose actions to curb emissions, save
water, eat more sustainable foods or
generate less
waste (to name a few).
In the US, over 12.4 million trees and 13 billion gallons of
water are consumed each year in the creation of paper receipts,
generating 1.5 billion pounds of
waste and 4 billion pounds of CO2.
Most impressively, reACT — short for Resilient Adaptive Climate Technology — is self - sufficient and
generates clean energy, recycles
waste, self - regulates its building systems, and even produces clean
water and grows nutrient - rich foods.
Clean energy - no
waste or pollution produced Reliable — electricity can be
generated constantly
Water can be stored above the dam ready to cope with peaks in demand Disadvantages: Very expensive to build.
[1] When coal is mined and used to
generate power, external costs include the impacts of
water pollution, toxic coal
waste, air pollution, and the long - term damage to ecosystems and human health.
The combination of liquid
waste with cooling
water generates what is known as palm oil mill effluent (POME), a substance that may be dumped in nearby waterways, killing marine life and contaminating the
water for drinking and bathing.
100 percent PCR PET materials use significantly less energy and
water to produce than virgin plastic and
generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and solid
waste.
Australia's Transition Newcastle organized a «Transition Streets Challenge to encourage neighbors to work together to use less
water and energy and
generate less
waste.
• access to
water — potentially an issue but someone has devised a way to use
waste water in conjunction with solar and a fuel cell to
generate power and purify
water.
The vast majority of the problems can be traced back to the industrial economy, which consumes most of the
water,
generates most of the plastic
waste, creates the most emissions, and so on and so forth.
Not sure how local storage and 0.7 GW of
waste heat production get connected nor how to
generate electricity economically from warm
water.
The average single gold ring, weighing in at 1/3 of an ounce,
generates 20 tons of
waste, and gold mining can cause a bevy of problems that run the gamut from air,
water and soil pollution to human rights violations (more info on dirty gold can be found here).
It will, however, utilize many of the same elements:
waste and
water will be recycled and reused, housing will be built and orientated to take advantage of prevailing winds and maximize energy efficiency, efficient district - wide systems will handle heating and cooling, and electricity will come from planned wind and solar thermal plants, or be
generated on site.
A
water filter is a great solution that can significantly offset the amount of bottled
water you purchase and bottle
waste you
generate, but what about the filters themselves?
3) It puts
waste to good use: Plastic
water bottles can suddenly
generate more drinkable
water.