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Nuclear energy creates nuclear waste, which is very hazardous.
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The open-ended, blank-check nature of the Medicare subsidy threatens the solvency of this critical program and creates inexcusable levels of waste.
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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.
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Despite a change in government policy on the issue, there are still plans for extensive demolition of occupied homes in the North and Midlands, which breaks up communities and creates huge amounts of waste.
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After reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and seeing a photograph of an albatross with its belly full of plastic several years ago, Terry started cataloguing the plastic waste she creates each year, concentrating on disposable plastics (not her laptop or television, but things like food packaging, shipping waste, straws, and so forth).
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Rare earth minerals are often mixed with radioactive elements, and processing creates low-level radioactive waste.
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Recycling uses energy, water and other resources and creates its own stream of waste.
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Sensors include visible spectrum cameras, 3D laser scanners and a spectrometer analysis (just to name a few) that creates an accurate analysis of waste which has not been possible with mechanical technology or human labor before.
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Energy derived from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, for example, creates more than 10 times more hazardous waste than the same energy created by a solar panel, according to Mulvaney.
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Sweden creates energy for around 250, 000 homes and powers one-fifth of the district heating system, Swedish Waste Managements says.
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