The three options are to export the waste, use heat treatment or make the waste into a fuel which would then be exported.
That is true in an obvious sense when, for example, companies dump toxic waste or use risky technologies in countries whose regulation is relatively lax.
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Even the waste from the waste is put to good use -- the waste from the bio-fermentor is used as a natural fertiliser in the barley fields.
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In some instances, microCHP systems have attempted to use waste heat for residential space heating.
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It is easy to justify simply quantified CSR commitments that cut costs, like reducing waste or energy use.
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Making existing energy production more efficient, and reducing waste in the use of energy by consumers, would have a big economic and environmental impact.
He also hopes to see a pilot project on the recycling of organic waste for agricultural use in Gaza, and training and visitor exchanges on issues such as urban planning and public space management.
It does, however, turn a cost trash disposal into a revenue, however small, for Texas cotton farmers, and it is typical of the hundreds of small ways that the farmers have figured out to waste nothing and use everything.
The proof is in the pudding on this point: every dollar of public-sector funds received by these projects was being matched by nearly four dollars in private-sector investment toward buying and installing the systems that generate on-site electricity and use waste-heat created during generation.
For example, almost every manufacturer has targets for carbon footprint, waste reduction, water use, etc.
It would be such a waste not to make use of all that kit, would it not?
The landfill tax is designed to encourage councils to recycle more waste and make less use of landfill.
Among other things, his team has designed a nuclear reactor that would use nuclear waste as its fuel.
Combined heat and power (CHP) systems have long been used to generate electricity and use the waste heat for other purposes, especially for industrial processes.
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Other reports to be cut include monitoring the use of waste tyres, and a monthly check on the effects of an earthquake 20 years ago.
They are also inefficient in their energy use and waste management.
Dr Joseph Adelegan from Nigeria has seen poverty first hand in Africa where he worked closely with villagers to convert slaughterhouse waste to gas they use for cooking.
Besides the resulting unemployment, some researchers fear this would waste an opportunity to use the new data to reveal the true workings of the sources and sinks of gases.
Recycling is also a big part of the inner workings of The Plant and tenants work with each other to use their waste output in their food production and farming techniques.
"A business that's left in a competitive world, without the government's help, the way it thrives is by making better, safer, and healthier products that use less waste, because that keeps the price down, " Roberts said.
Hopefully Apple has some HD content up its sleeve, 'cause otherwise it seems like waste of money to use this with a decent TV unless you want to look at photo galleries all day -- which look great, by the way.
Campaigners had fought moves to use the lake for dumping waste ash from Didcot power station until owners Npower found an alternative use for the ash in 2008.
It also said operators waste time repeating questions and use inconsistent questioning procedures.
The law came into effect on January 1, after a three-year campaign to reduce waste and encourage tap water use.
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Many if not most of these countries have comparatively few or no regulation related to e-waste, which allows the use of crude, unsafe methods to extract the minerals exists.
Known as cellulose nanocrystal substrates (or CNC), these solar cells benefit from being truly disposable, eliminating the waste that results from the use of alternative materials like petroleum or glass.
Veolia Environmental Services was the other firm fighting to run the incinerator, and whose spokesperson said it believed it was "sympathetic with the local environment and represented a unique opportunity to use the residual waste to provide a secure source of sustainable energy and heat to the neighbouring Tata Steel steelworks - a major source of employment in the area".
Just sussing out which one to use for what could waste a long evening.
The council estimated that 12% of people who currently use Bradford's waste and recycling centres are not local.
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