Who better to unclog sewers or suck up nuclear waste than these remarkable machines?
The experimental fusion reactors, he suggests, could be used to clean up the waste generated by the fission reactors.
Ilya Raskin of Rutgers University says plants can help clean up hazardous waste sites through a process of phytoremediation.
As an example of the weakness of the old way, the authors cite the Superfund, America's controversial attempt to clean up toxic waste.
The Public Services Department is heading up the waste strategy, and is trying to involve as broad a sample of the population as possible.
Dominion probably will have to clean up the waste at its Long Island Sound plant, but this possibility was known long before March 11.
We will seek reauthorization and expanded funding for the Superfund program to continue cleaning up hazardous waste sites which threaten human health and the environment.
When electricity prices go up, waste-to-energy operations will get a tailwind.
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Councils are also not allowed to impose a call-out fee if rubbish collectors arrive at a property but are unable for some reason to pick up the waste at that time.
"The key is a comprehensive program that draws in not just bottles and cans but milk jugs and newspapers and magazines and detergent bottles and all the things that make up the waste in our communities, " Neely says.
Arun Majumdar, the former director of ARPA-E now at Google, told me in 2008 that The U.S. consumes about 100 quads of energy a year, he said and 55 to 60 of those quads gets burned up in waste heat.
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The runner-up is the waste-reducing plastic shell enclosing the second-generation iPod nano .
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The fight was over which insurance carrier, if any, would indemnify the State for the cost of cleaning up this toxic waste site.
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According to Dr Eastlund, breaking nuclear waste up into its constituent elements using a fusion torch would have a number of advantages over the chemical approach.
The appearance of more radioactive soil at Hanford illustrates the difficulties the federal government faces in cleaning up nuclear-waste sites, many of them the legacy of Cold War-era research.
But in practice they mostly end up being a waste of time because they come at the wrong time (at the beginning rather than the end) or with the wrong process.
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They never should have built the plants where they did at Fukishima, and they never should store used fuel rods in unprotected water pools like they did. 24 plants in the U.S. have the same set up for the waste.
James Glanz has an excellent piece in the Sunday New York Times and continuing today on how much power is consumed by data centers in the U.S. To provide fast response time, they operate near full capacity much of the time, and waste up to 90 percent of their energy consumption.
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It was set up in 1948 to look at waste and impropriety in government, and promptly took up the issue of corrupt lobbyists - implicating several staff of President Harry Truman's White House.
Their inland shrimp farm uses another fish, the tilapia, to mop up the shrimps' waste.
Since space is scarce, three-quarters of all waste ends up in the furnace rather than in landfills.
Experts say that with further development, it could find applications in cleaning up oil spills and waste water.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more than 4.6 million tons of e-waste end up in U.S. landfills.
She said it fitted well alongside the department's objective to reduce the amount of waste ending up in landfill.
"It'll be a bit like Pennsylvania, where a whole industry has grown up to deal with waste-water, " he said.
We made a conscious decision at the start of the quarter to focus on catching up with this accumulated waste-mining shortfall.
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If that were to change, says Greenpeace, poor countries in need of cash will end up taking on the waste of rich ones.
The site has been a priority for nuclear power companies, which say the department is ignoring the waste piling up at utility company sites.
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