Articles tagged with: Waste
Posted in Animals, Electricity, Environment, Green on 8 August 2008
In current eon, every nation has to face the crisis situation of electricity shortage. To crack this hitch regimes in all states are probing pioneering energy generation prospects. It would be a real bliss, particularly in rural areas if a nation builds up techniques to produce electricity out of fritter away stuff. Lately it has been guesstimated based on a report that electricity generated via cow dung could be of enormous aid as it is capable of fulfilling approximately 3% of US electrical demand. Subsequent to this, one of the largest chicken farms in China has lately set up a chicken waste consumption plant that claims to be one-of-its-kind in the whole country.
Posted in Eco-Friendly, Efficiency, Green, Recycling, concept, water on 6 August 2008
Waste-water management is the call of the day when there’s extreme pressure on natural water resources. Every place on earth, the traditional sewer treatment plants purify sewage slush to provide the cities with clean useable water. However, the entire process consumes a lot of energy besides requiring a heavy infrastructure and high costs. But now, there’s a cheaper and equally effective way to recycle waste water. Developed by biologist Dr. John Todd, LIVING MACHINES are half man-made and half natural systems that consist of a number of ecosystems within (working in synergy) to provide clean water from sludge. These LIVING MACHINES employ eco-engineered technology to restore, treat and conserve pure water from sewage.
Posted in Companies, Eco-Friendly, Electricity, Green on 30 July 2008
The latest entry in the world of diverse wastes yielding valuable “biogas” is yours truly, human excreta! We have heard about astronauts up there in space breathing oxygen churned out from their own urine earlier. Now down here on earth, our households will get powered by our own collective poo. Of course, this isn’t something that will happen in the whole world simultaneously for such an exclusive power generating mechanism will be test run under a $1.1 million pilot project. The latter undertaken by Terasen Gas of British Columbia (Canada) which is determined to purify “biogas” from human waste. The procedure will take place at the Lions Gate sewage treatment plant. This project happens to be the first of its kind in British Columbia although efforts to do the same are going on in the United States. Tearsen hopes to extract biomethane (biofuel) at the end of the process and distribute it via its existing natural gas distribution system. Methane gas is produced by sewage treatment via processes like decomposition / digestion of sewage and solid-liquid waste separation.
Posted in Eco Art, Recycling on 19 July 2008
Being experimental augments one’s creativity! Well, I m sure about this one because not many people like to experiment with their waste products esply. waste plastic bottles.
Posted in Pollution on 26 June 2008
The European Commission is not very convinced of the actions undertaken by Italy, nor the pieces of the amendments added to the decree for waste management, passed the House with 300 votes in favour, 23 against and 200 abstained. The notice came directly from Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas who received yesterday Guido Bertolaso, Undersecretary of the emergency waste in Campania (here is the audio review).
The aim is to avoid treating an environmental problem by creating new
Di mas insisted seen with Bertolaso, side Europe more as the commitment made by Italy to avoid fines and penalties and with the notice to act within the law, repeatedly emphasized and confirmed by Dimas.
Posted in Energy on 28 May 2008
Speaker question the judiciary in landfills and waste disposal in Campania delivering 25 orders of custody, triggering the handcuffs for several managers, involved in various capacities and a notice of a direct Prefect of Naples, Alessandro Pansa. At the heart of called “rompiballe”, coordinated by the prosecutor added Aldo De Chiara and Joseph Noviello pm and Paul Sirleo and materially conducted by the Carabinieri of Noe (core operating ecological), two strands that touch also trains for Germany.
Posted in Pollution, public transport on 5 May 2008
Salgono temperatures of the column of mercury and not just those in Naples: dates were burned 1,300 tonnes of waste accumulated in suburbs and even in the most central of the city partenopea. Already dust sprinkled disinfectants, the garbage accumulates in the streets, creating different problems: yesterday, Sunday, the site storage Ferrandelle has accumulated in addition to those previously stored, all waste collected in a single day throughout the region.
On Sundays we know, trains ecolog (those who carry the rubbish in Germany) are detentions and the problems of storage increase Ferrandelle, while in the rest of the region there were more than 30 interventions fire: Afragola, Casoria, Acerra , Boscoreale, Giugliano and other villages dell’hinterland Naples, mini-landfills were on fire, with the risk of releasing toxic substances in the air.
Small fires that have often required more than an hour each to be switched off: three months from emergency waste Campania still suffers the problem and despite the classic operations to be attached elections and promises of candidates, the situation is still dramatic. In addition to the social, becomes incalculable damage image for the entire region.