Sentences with phrase «which organic waste»

However, only 20 percent of urban garbage was disposed harmlessly in the country through sanitary landfills, incineration and composting - a biological process in which organic waste is turned into humus like substance and returned to the soil.

Compost is the natural process by which organic waste breaks down into nutrient - rich fertilizer....

Not exact matches

You've slashed your waste, your energy use, your raw materials — which you've shifted largely to organic and fair trade.

Primarily, this investment will see a doubling of office space with increased storage facilities and the development of a new purpose - built laboratory for Research and Development (R&D) with three state - of - the - art pilot plants, which will test and trial pre - and post-treatment liquid and solid organic waste streams, to ensure optimal anaerobic digester performance.

He notes that the company's early products included compostable bags called Toters, (compost liners that line large organic collection bins), which were used for the disposal of food waste in compost piles.

We're invested in nourishing our community, which is why we use sustainable practices, cook with organic products, locally source our ingredients, and compost 100 % of our product waste.

Sodexo also uses the hierarchy to educate clients, Cook adds, offering the example of Marist College, which since implementing food waste composting in 2008 has recycled more than one million pounds of organics.

«This world - class technology — which can be applied globally by all community - minded companies with organic waste and wastewater streams — produces both green energy to supplant fossil fuel needs as well as delivering high quality treated wastewater to safeguard community water standards.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

COHRAL (TM) technology — which is applicable to both livestock and cropping operations — uses concentrated anaerobic bacteria to digest 70 per cent of the organic matter (COD, or Chemical Oxygen demand) in Oakey Abattoir's waste water to produce effluent of far high quality than typical open lagoons.

While briefing the Governor on the project, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agric, Dr Shakirudeen Olayiwola said the farm started in 2012 and it was copied from the Songhai model of farming which mainly are organic agriculture, zero waste agriculture and training.

Collectively, this group — it includes current Labour and Tory voters as well as the undecided — is the Lib Dem «market» (another Coetzee label that can leave the party's more organic activists wincing), and it responds especially well to party lines, of which you can expect to hear much more («Labour wasted their opportunity and ruined the economy», «You can't count on the Tories to care about others»), including the need for the next government to be balanced and sensible.

Recycling starts with sewage treatment by the Orange County Sanitation District, which removes solid waste and uses microorganisms to break down organic materials.

The plant, which will be able to handle 10 cubic metres of waste water an hour, will use a combination of chemical and physical processes to extract the organic dye component and concentrate it into a sludge suitable for disposal in a landfill.

And within a century after that, melting could begin to release waste stored at the camp, including sewage, diesel fuel, persistent organic pollutants like PCBs, and radiological waste from the camp's nuclear generator, which was removed during decommissioning.

They investigated the truth behind organic foods, which detox methods actually work, if indoor air quality is improving, and how we dispose of waste (where do those chemicals go?).

Specifically formulated to effectively remove odors and soiling caused by non-living organic animal and food waste which results in a healthier pet environment.

The Institute also highlighted the Golden Gate National Parks» local food work at Muir Woods Café, which not only serves as a national model of local and organic food sourcing, sustainable packaging, waste management, and customer education, but also thrives as a local culinary hotspot.

Visit our organic garden and see how organic pineapple, papaya and bananas grow, we use compost, which we gain from our waste separation for fertilization

Furthermore, we believe that our food is good because when planning and purchasing our menu we are striving to choose environmental and ethical options, which includes growing our own, buying local, reducing packaging waste, and choosing fair trade and organic when possible.

Valid efforts from Florblanca include, actively participating in the local Recycling Program and using its organic waste for the production of compost and vermicompost, which is used to enrich the soil of the property's onsite biogarden that is treated with organic fertilizer, pesticide and insecticide.

So, for real «green» action, Andy, get attention to this world wide mess of organic wastes for which we have a curative action; Pyrolysis.

One of the more successful rural energy development strategies is the use of biogas digesters, which involves a process whereby organic material such as agricultural or animal waste are broken down by specific types of bacteria by anaerobic digestion, releasing carbon dioxide and methane gas.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

When it's time to take down that tree, replant or recycle it to avoid the landfill and wasting the organic matter, which can be turned into soil enriching wood chips.

In many cities, local or municipal initiatives exist to collect household waste and organic refuse from vegetable markets and agro-industries in order to produce compost or animal feed, but one can also find urban farmers who use fresh organic waste (which may cause environmental and health problems).

Most countries will have some no - regrets options (e.g. producing biogas for heat from organic waste) which can be implemented quickly and bring multiple, additional benefits.

The only thing about the Humanure Handbook is they suggest a very crude type of composting toilet which relies on burying the waste under sawdust or other organic material.

The future is sustainable development by converting organic waste materials into renewable energy which reduces global warming and improves our quality of life.

Imagine if all of those buildings had vacuum waste systems delivering organic waste, urine separating toilets to deliver phosphorus, gray water systems to supply the plants, which then return pure water through the dehumidifiers.

The first chamber your solid waste will travel to is the rotating drum which will actively decompose organic waste.

The company has an ethical sourcing policy and aims to buy Fair Trade and organic ingredients for its products, and has its full sustainability report (PDF) available online, which details its initiatives in water conservation and efficiency, energy conservation, reducing its carbon footprint, and waste diversion.

The bigger picture is that food waste is a huge issue, and sending food waste (and yard waste and other organic materials) to landfills is a ridiculous practice which adds to methane emissions (20 % comes from landfills, according to the EPA).

My town does not have green bins or organic waste collection of any kind, which means that each household is responsible for dealing with the piles of food waste generated on a daily basis — and I always have a lot, since I cook so much.

Foster's microbial fuel cell could spawn similar devices to be used across the food and beverage industry, which generates a lot of organic waste.

Conducted by a team of Indian researchers led by Swati Pattnaik and M. Vikram Reddy of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, at Pondicherry University, the research holds particular promise for dealing with the growing problem of urban organic waste which is often dumped on the outskirts of major settlements, polluting soils and causing issues for groundwater contamination.

A lot of those 12 daily tons of waste still get landfilled, and all the waste and recycling has to go back to the mainland, to the landfill or to the recycling center; the only thing that doesn't leave is the organic waste, which is composted, or the biomedical waste (mostly from the hospital) which is burned on site.

CSS gets organic waste from supermarkets, transports it in bins designed to keep it fresh, and then uses their proprietary process of grinding, heating, and then enzymatically digesting the food to turn it into a liquid fertilizer, which is then screened and blended into a consistent formula for application to the soil.

Each day Mexico City produces 5,100 tons of organic waste, 600 of which come from the city's sprawling Central de Abasto, or central marketplace.

After sorting, the organic waste from Tel Aviv's trash is pumped to these biogas digesters where micro-bacteria break down the waste and produce gas, which is used to power Arrow's entire facility.

Along with following Fair Trade standards and sourcing organic tea and herbs, Numi makes a point of recycling its packaging products, and finessed its processing to be waste - free; its cardboard boxes are made from 85 percent recycled material, which the company says saves more than 5,000 trees each year.

When bacteria in the landfill eat this type of organic waste, methane is produced, which is a powerful climate - altering, greenhouse gas.