Often times, these are going to be companies in non-sexy industries, such as junkyards or waste collection.
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The team is also looking to see if the bacteria can convert any other products into fuel, such as human or animal waste.
If the offcuts weren't fed into power stations, they would be burned as waste or left on the ground to decay, producing methane and CO2.
Or, as an old Waste Management wag once complained to me: The most efficient operator in the business is a one-truck hauler where the owner drives the truck.
Another wheeze was diversification into peripheral businesses such as waste management or renewable energy.
FuelCell Energy touts the ability of its fuel cells to directly process a hydrocarbon, such as natural gas or waste gas from a sewage treatment facility.
At the moment, people can be fined with a fixed-penalty notice if they repeatedly break the rules covering rubbish collections, such as recycling incorrectly or leaving waste out on the wrong day.
"It's not our long-term solution because of the competition with feed, and fuel competition, but it is prompting us to put into place a refueling infrastructure that could be used with cellulosic ethanol, " made from other types of plant material such as timber waste or switch grass.
Electronic waste currently constitutes only four percent of total municipal waste, but it is growing by almost 30 percent every five years or three times as fast as the average growth of municipal waste, according to the Commission.
The remaining 52 units would become low-temperature heat, usually disposed of as waste into adjacent rivers or the air.
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The waning focus on handwriting comes as a welcome change to some who disliked handwriting lessons as students or felt they were a waste of time.
The concrete is often made with foam, fly-ash or other waste materials to make it lighter as well as cheaper.
You look at the clock, 15 minutes have passed since you started - do you end it here and now or do you hold, so as not to waste that valuable time already spent.
Since then referendums have been held, or are being sought, on such varied topics as waste-disposal methods, public-works projects and American military bases.
Heads of departments at the best universities, such as Toulouse 1, Grenoble 1 or Paris-Dauphine, waste time bending the rules to lure the professors and students they want, or to raise private finance.
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On another front, the mayor proposed banning Styrofoam food packaging from stores and restaurants and he called on the city to begin recycling food waste, which can be used as fertilizer or converted to energy.
Because the mobile-phone companies get paid in advance, they waste no time or money on chasing bad debts, as fixed-line firms do.
The point of the committee is to consider the bill in detail, so as, ostensibly, not to waste time in the Senate or House on bills that will not garner enough support to move on.
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Hundreds of tonnes of household and business waste has been disguised as plastic-wrapped hay, straw or silage bales and dumped on farmland in Essex.
These either burn fossil fuel and thus contribute to global warming, or use uranium, which brings problems such as how to get rid of the waste, as well as political opposition.
The global economy was growing nicely, and analyzing it (or even paying attention to market cycles) seemed like a waste of time, as the economy came in only three flavors: good, great and awesome.
The Environmental Protection Agency consistently ranks hazardous-waste sites as less harmful to human health than radon, outdoor particulate pollution or working exposure to pesticides.
Buying something outrageously expensive, such as a cashmere suit from Bonpoint or a floral Baby Dior dress, might seem like a waste of money since it will be outgrown within a few months.
The urgency of the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico led the Oil Cleanup Challenge to focus on mechanical cleanup technologies rather than absorbents (such as the recycled surfboard waste I wrote about in the current issue of Forbes) or chemical dispersants.
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Also in Germany, there are aerobic digesters which are fed by maize (corn) rather than waste and so the same argument would arise over growing crops for fuel or for food as applies to biodiesel production and must ring an eventual death-knell for both biodiesel and biogas, if the latter is made from food too.
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Receiving centers, says Hadley, charge as much as 8 cents to 13 cents to treat a liter of waste, processing it either chemically or mechanically to be dumped in a landfill.
Receiving centers, says Hadley, charge as much as 30 cents to 50 cents to treat a gallon of waste, processing it either chemically or mechanically to be dumped in a landfill.
As he says, a lot of people will freak out this, but its another step along the same line of waste reduction as what we hoped The Times would eliminate (someday) by having copyeditors or writers tag their work once at the point of inception and bake that stuff into the files that flowed downstream from there.
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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.
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.
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