For example, how will the land be reclaimed and how will waste products be treated?
Second, the deal illuminates the growing interesting among VCs and industrialists to capitalize on trash and waste products.
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The B30 fuel blend was introduced in partnership with Motherwell-based Argent Energy, which manufactures biofuel from waste products.
These "metabolites" represent the waste products of the body's chemistry - but their uniqueness had never been shown.
The lymph nodes normally filter the cellular waste products and debris from infections that travel through the lymph ducts.
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That basic idea of looking at the waste products as the source of raw materials is the what on earth.
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"For quite a long time, some business waste has found its way illegally into the household waste products' stream, " said Mr Read.
Turns out that a vegan diet is the one mostly likely to contain natural antioxidants and minerals that neutralize waste products like lactic acid.
Jon, Bridget, and their teammates designed a low-cost, easy-to-ship mini-press that can turn biomass waste products, such as banana peels, into a viable wood-alternative for cooking.
An average of 97 percent of waste products are either reused or recycled at these 76 facilities with an additional three percent converted to usable energy.
Once the Uranium is split, you still have massive amounts of long lived radioactive waste products which are still the main danger from current nuclear plants.
Food is donated to food banks and hunger relief organizations and other organic waste products are used to make animal feed, compost and even energy creation.
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 need to look backwards to the future and get rid of non-biodegradable waste products - responsibility lies at the door of manufacturers not just at the population.
"The idea is that the same thing is true for colors, that there are certain kinds of colors that are characteristic of stuff that's good for us as a species -- clear sky, clear water -- and stuff that's bad for us, like rotting foods, biological waste products, " he said.
Some background: Donziger has spent more than a decade trying to collect money for Ecuadorean villagers he says have suffered a variety of health problems due to millions of barrels of oil and waste products left behind at drilling sites that Texaco, now part of Chevron, operated until it left the country in 1990.
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Mines and factories that make paint, batteries or electroplated products discharge waste water into local rivers and lakes.
Now BP will try to continue where Verenium left off, trying to turn sugarcane bagasse, agricultural waste, and wood products into liquid fuels for transportation.
Samples taken from the paths showed levels of dioxins and heavy metals - feared as cancer-causing by-products of waste incineration - 800 times above safety guidelines.
Consequently, the World Conference on Human Rights calls on all States to adopt and vigorously implement existing conventions relating to the dumping of toxic and dangerous products and waste and to cooperate in the prevention of illicit dumping.
Even Hagedorn says products with animal waste aren't necessarily better for the environment than chemical-laced alternatives.
Some companies are great at using off-the-shelf products and others waste a lot of money.
However he realizes it is still but a tiny contribution to relieving the amount of food products that go to waste.
"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.
Overall merchandise revenues slid 1% as agricultural products, metals, and waste and equipment shipments fell.
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This type of ethanol refers to fuel made from waste, wood, plants and other products, as opposed to the now widely produced corn ethanol.
Companies that have their origin in social enterprise find that meeting commitments are part of their founding corporate DNA. New Jersey-based TerraCycle, for example, builds its products from non-recyclable waste that would otherwise be dumped in landfills.
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With sizable gains to be had for both consumers and businesses, we could be embarking on a sixth wave of innovation, fueled by smarter connected products and machines working to reduce waste, create new efficiency and power entirely new business models.
Hero in this tale of environmental cleanup: ITT Industries , manufacturer of some oddball industrial products, including equipment to handle liquid waste.
Humanure toilets use the methane released by human waste to create power that is converted into saleable products, such as electricity.
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