The concrete is often made with foam, fly-ash or other waste materials to make it lighter as well as cheaper.
Planning permission for the car park was granted in 2009 on condition the developer notified the council if waste materials were found.
Mr. ROB ROUTS (Executive, Royal Dutch Shell): Waste materials could be straw, they could be wood and in some cases, for instance, old railroad ties, trees, what have you.
But the key going forward is going to be, can we create biofuels out of switchgrass and wood chips and other materials that right now are considered waste materials?
Governments and companies will need to give incentives, and penalties, in order to shift the goal posts so that people can begin to treat waste materials in new ways.
In 1986 the VML stopped accepting waste materials.
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"To have 100 billion cars on the planet that aren't being used is a total waste of materials, gas, petrol, metals, " Frigstad explained.
Life cycle analysts add up all the global warming pollution that goes into making a certain product from the mining needed for components to the exhaust from diesel trucks used to transport waste and materials.
Lynas says it intends to process the radioactive waste into other materials, such as road surfacing, diluting it.
What do we do that causes us to waste time, materials, or money?
Dr. Mershin says that by using agricultural waste and inexpensive materials, like grass clippings, to create solar panels, electricity could become affordable and more available to rural places and developing countries.
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He said the plan would include proposals to ban certain materials, like biodegradable waste, from landfill and recover the energy from these materials.
These materials include low-grade waste from power stations and small devices containing radioactive materials such as cesium-137, used in some cancer treatments, cobalt-60, used in food irradiation, or americum, incorporated in sensors for oil exploration.
The tougher fines would cover everything from illegal fly-tipping of DIY waste to dumping toxic materials.
All our new products need to contribute to sustainability in at least one of our five focal areas: energy and climate, water and wastewater, materials and waste, safety and health, and social progress.
The ZenRobotics Recycler is made up of off the shelf robotics components and uses data from a combination of visual sensors, mental detectors, weight measurements and feedback from its robotic arm to identify items and raw materials from waste.
Jersey's waste could be turned into building materials to stop the build up of ash, according to a deputy.
Simply, the manufactured high-rises of today allow greater economies of scale regarding energy use, building materials, sewage and waste, and overall footprint on the land.
The principle of zero waste includes persuading participants to buy materials which can be repaired, reused or recycled and not buying goods which are overly-packaged.
That basic idea of looking at the waste products as the source of raw materials is the what on earth.
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Fossil fuels, similarly -- we are trying to target fossil fuels and design so that you get fossil -- biomass to replace fossil fuel, but biomass based on, for example, woody materials, based on agricultural waste like wheat straw, corn cobs -- agricultural waste, lumber waste residues -- that's very inexpensive feedstock.
To produce one ton of pharmaceutical pills requires more than 100 tons of input materials, making a 99% waste rate on average.
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.
To duplicate that process in a laboratory, scientists uses a device called a bioreactor, which has various tubes ferrying materials to the heart and whisking away waste products.
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We created ZenRobotics to establish an intelligent recycling process for commercial and demolition waste and begin to change the balance of waste and resources and increase the volume of recycled materials.
Use of construction materials with recycled content and recycling of construction waste.
So, one of the things we look at and that producers become more concerned about, is how they can reduce the consumption of materials on their sets and the amount of waste they produce as a byproduct.
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Like humans, they need to convert energy from natural raw materials, replenish reserves and of course, address the issue of waste management.
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Self-help materials sold online and trust kits sold in office supply stores are a waste of your money, or worse.
But in the US, construction waste accounts for 50 per cent of all landfill material, according to the Construction Materials Recycling Association.
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