It is believed to be the contents of animals stomachs, a waste product from meat plants.
Alcohol would be a waste product of these replicating yeasts, but it's not the only product.
Those who think that poetry is a waste product of neurosis will have a lovely time.
Originally they were derived from coal-tar, the black viscous waste product left over from distilling coal for gas.
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Clearly, the animals were disposing of this waste product by secreting it from their mouths into the water.
Meat is a dead matter, low in minerals, and produces uric acid in excess which is a waste product.
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The ash is a waste product of the Kingston Fossil Power Plant which is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Ricin is a poison found naturally in castor beans and is part of the waste product from the manufacture of castor oil.
The carbon dioxide is then separated with a proprietary method that uses low-temperature heat something readily available for free, since it is a waste product of many power plants.
At the cathode, the protons and the electrons react with oxygen from the air to make water which, to the joy of environmentalists, is the only waste product of such a cell.
If the full economic benefits, externalities included, of energy independence are also taken into the equation, then we could well see CO2 go from a despised and destructive waste product to a valuable commodity.
That said, if the process really can be made to work, CO2 would go from being a polluting waste product to a valuable raw material, and it might even become worthwhile building systems to capture it and pipelines to ship it around.
This would result in reduced fuel consumption per delivery and minimized greenhouse gasses as a byproduct of waste from overripe product going to the municipal dumps.
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This would have the advantage of ending the production of radioactive waste, which must be stored, and of stopping the flushing of technetium-99, a new waste by-product of reprocessing, into the Irish Sea, which would please the Irish government.
United Utilities is converting a by-product of waste water at its Blackburn plant into gas.
Starbucks, too, is trying to make its labor scheduling more efficient, and run its stores in ways that waste less of the product.
Among those that do, the definition varies: 55% define sustainability as the management of issues related to the environment (for example, greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, green-product development, and water conservation).
For example, a gifted product designer joins a company because he figures he'll get to concentrate his creative talents on product design and not waste them on sales or bookkeeping.
Asking or engaging a customer and investing their time to get your product better is a sinful waste of time.
The company also claims the sticks don't need as much packaging as standard laser print cartridges and so the product creates 90% less waste.
As much as we hate waiting, we'd say that's a stellar direction for the company to take -- nothing builds animosity toward a product more than letting it waste away in a purgatory of unattainability (assuming your name isn't Eldar Murtazin) for six-plus months.
Since 2005, the company has reduced its waste to landfills 32 percent per ton of product.
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And the feedstock, or food for the microbes, can be any type of agricultural product, from sugar cane to waste such as wheat straw and wood chips.
Some emerging designers are eschewing new textiles altogether for upcycling, which means taking waste and reclaimed textile material and turning it into a product with higher value.
Managing and maintaining an optimal harmony among what goes as input to the supply chain, what is made and how much goes as waste is critical to responsible supply chain and to good product stewardship.
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The 2007 Bush-Pelosi energy bill required blending fuels that can allegedly be made from switchgrass or farm waste into the gasoline supply, though no companies produced the product at a commercial scale.
In my next blog I will write about life after the end of life of a product and how it can be a powerful solution to reducing waste and curtailing pollution.
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This means processing electronic waste properly is often more a service industry rather than profit-from-product industry.
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