Don't expect a decrease in turkey waste at future Thanksgivings. It would take a major cultural shift for Americans to change their holiday eating habits,
Figure out a low-fuel way to get some compost and manure, and start building your soil.
they cut down on your garbage, and they produce nature's best fertilizer for your garden.
She remembers thinking, What a waste. After the disaster, Japan shut down 52 of the 54 nuclear reactors,
The plastic legacy of Great East Japan tsunami debris Q&a: Hitoshi Abe on design lessons from the Great East Japan earthquake Listen to Japan's 9. 0 earthquake Fukushima's Lesson:'
Today, he â¢s a leader in green design making chairs from plant Å trash  and hurricane debris,
This chair is made entirely out of Hurricane Katrina debris. In 2005 we were hired by Metropolis magazine to make an instillation.
So we collected a lot of debris, and we used a lot of chipped wood and edible glue to make this chair.
or leaves and different types of debris. Say you cut your yard. I could collect the grass
In 2009, this company produced 7831.98 tons of hazardous waste, making it Dongguan City Ëoes number one company for producing hazardous waste,
Under oxygen-free conditions, microorganisms within the digester break down the organic waste product and convert it to methane,
Farmers use similar digesters to produce electricity from cow manure. Back to the Scotch. Bruichladdich makes around 46,000 cases of single malt whisky annually.
In somewhat similar ventures as Bruichladdich's, Helius Energy recently announced plans to build a 7. 2-megawatt power plant in Speyside that will burn whiskey waste and woodchips, providing about 9, 000 homes
a greener whisky rebellion Human waste now heats British homes Image: Wikipedia Commons and Flickr/Joshua Rappeneker
it often those cleaning the jet engines who find the debris, called snarge. And that what is placed in a Ziploc
but caution that their findings likely fall short of our actual waste amount. For instance, the calculations didn't include waste on farms or in fisheries, such as bycatch,
or waste that occurs during food processing. The waste data they did include was taken from a USDA report from 1995 that accounts for uneaten food discarded from stores, the food service industry and average consumers.
and waste nutrients from chicken manure as fertilizer. To test their system compared with a conventional subsistence farm,
All food scraps, organic waste and spoiled foods are composted. In 2009, Poste composted more than 40,000 pounds of food scraps.
It important to our garden but also the fact that half our waste is now compost.
and turn colors when certain pollutants are introduced. English physician and synthetic biologist Rachel Armstrong and architect Neil Spiller
growing a shell that could eat greenhouse gas pollutants and strengthening buildings. The tools of synthetic biology are galvanizing the development of new forms of architecture that respond to environmental change by incorporating the dynamic properties of living systems, such as growth, repair, sensitivity and replication,
and recent food studies. 1.)Why Junk food'isn't'making children fat. A U s. study tracked approximately 20,000 students from kindergarten through to eighth grade in 1, 000 public and private schools.
35.5 percent of kids in schools that offer junk food were overweight, while 34.8 percent of those in schools without it were overweight. 2.)Can coffee stave off Type 2 diabetes?
or eliminate waste going to landfills. If I can raise the money needed to get to Copenhagen in the next four days,
The U n. estimates that the waste adds up to more than $750 billion in direct economic costs annually--more than the GDP of Switzerland, the world's 20th largest economy in terms of GDP.
it's cereals from Asia, with rice accounting for the majority of the waste--about 150 million tonnes.
Some waste also happens on the consumer side as people simply throw uneaten rice away.
this is a cost-effective way to produce large amounts of a safer alternative to bug sprays with minimum amounts of hazardous waste.
The urine is routed through a biofilter before being mixed with water and made available to the adjacent plants (large bamboo stalks, in the prototype).
Sensors measure the amount of urine entering the urinal and monitor ammonia levels. To determine where P-Planters are needed most,
Urine-powered restaurant pops up in Melbournemelbourne--Designed by Dutch-born Joost Bakker, the Greenhouse project proves that a waste free restaurant is achievable.
As part of this year's Melbourne Food and Wine Festival program, the Greenhouse uses the by-products of agriculture for insulation
and in a world first, urine will be collected from purpose-built lavatories to be used as soybean and canola crop fertilizer.
Urine may seem an unorthodox energy source but it is actually a great source of fertilizer when diluted.
According to Bakker, Å Urine is incredible for nitrogen, it s so valuable--you only need the urine of 25 people to provide fertilizer for a hectare of crop.
 The Greenhouse employs the unique Productive Building System, devised by Baker himself (patent pending);
The building is insulated with locally sourced straw bales (one of the world's largest waste products)
My dream has always been to build a restaurant that creates no waste and now
New tech converts junk plastics into fuel Solar-powered trash cans World s cheapest light bulb Printable paper solar panels New battery can recharge itself using sunlight The future
a man grows veggies with fish excrement instead of soil. Eric Maudu's garden is wired with sensors that let him know just how thirsty his plants are,
the ability to compost the waste, and an appetite for fresh vegetables. The parking lots in Oakland are not that different to where he grew up in Kenya, a country home to deserts and arid land.
No deforestation, hazardous waste or expenditure of fuels. And interesting enough, the living bridges are actually stronger than ones built from wood.
Detectable concentrations of glyphosate have been found in the urine of farmers and their children in two states.
But this Sunday brought crowds carrying as much recyclable garbage as they could haul in two hands.
According to the EPA, about 35 percent of waste is in landfills that use the methane for energy.
and ask,'How do you manage the methane at the landfill that this city's waste goes to?'
(which can be used in bricks) has begun buying other company's waste paper to use in its paperboard operations.
That's why it can make the waste-positive claim. As it turns out, Balaji says technology is the linchpin for many of the company's most impactful sustainability initiatives.
The businesses also cut their water usage by about 5 percent and diverted 1, 200 tons of waste materials from landfills.
and prevent other sorts of waste, but he said it has to be thought about intelligently.
Mass. that uses a process called pyrolysis to turn waste into energy. The company hopes the plant will help reduce its carbon footprint and boost its use of renewable energy;
but that same plant takes care of the solid waste from the Berkshire County area.
which in one year reduced the waste the hotel sent to a landfill by about 120 tons,
They'll mix that in with  horse manure, old hay, wood chips. Do you bring the compost back once it's ready to use  in the roof garden?
or pig feces paving roads didn't disturb me much, but a train chugging down the track on cow fat gave me some pause yesterday.
or even a faecal note, perhaps like that of a well rotted manure heap, writes an online ambergris guide.
Not only does the system solve the problem of animal waste, but it uses about one tenth of the water required for traditional agriculture.
and manage waste in more natural ways than currently in use. There's an entire Compost Hill that also offers pretty terraced housing.
The entrepreneur had already been using raw materials like silk waste and vegetable slush to prepare paper.
Future plans also involve making paper with more raw materials like bamboo, sugarcane and vegetable waste.
So, businesses that are moving to newer materials need to ensure that the materials they are consider can be accommodated properly within existing waste management processes
of course--but the major environmental pollution problem at the turn of the century was the millions of pounds of manure in city streets produced by horses used for transport.
It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure but it's just as significant.
produced by everything from household waste to charcoal burning to gassy livestock. The hope is that the World bank can play a central role in streamlining the application process for climate projects.
We cannot convert municipal solid waste. That's a bit of too much of a challenge right now.
--i e. waste materials--and you don't want to be in competition for feedstocks, or you're squeezing your margins.
which is defined as the volume of water that is needed to assimilate pollutants The assessments break down all three of the scenarios described above for these different types of uses.
who 10 years ago discovered The Great Garbage Patch, a section of garbage-strewn ocean larger than Texas killing wildlife between California and Hawaii.
The Great Garbage Patch is the good news. Closer to home we have coal ash.
In 2010, the solid waste that Disney sent to landfills was 44 percent of the amount it sent in 2006.
It doesn't say what total of its CURRENT waste it is sending but in practical terms,
its goal means keeping the waste sent to landfill to below 137,556 tons annually. The company's goal is to reduce solid waste sent to landfills to 50 percent of its 2006 baseline by 2013.
Some specific ways Disney manages its waste this include moving more quickly to digital, tapeless/filmless workflow and production techniques for its motion pictures.
Packaging doesn't need to be a waste material. It can have a positive impact. You say mushrooms are nature s recycling system.
We re using waste materials and using the entire organism. The future for us is replacing foam.
Envirelation tackles D c. hospitality industry waste through compostinglike many of my friends in Washington, I ve been thinking about composting for years
But something like a Sweet Green, a smaller restaurant with organic positioning, they have the customers separating their own waste.
they have very little waste. They are motivated because they believe in it and know it s the right thing to do;
How much are your clients cutting down on waste now that they are composting? If you look at just restaurants,
Actually, one of the largest sources of phosphorus into waters comes from human waste sewage treatment plants.
and help filter out pollutants. Keep fertilizing materials off hard surfaces. If you get fertilizer on your driveway or sidewalk,
& Environmental Research center at the University of North dakota once worked on technology to convert waste from a space station and future Martian bases into heat and power.
Like turning coffee waste into power. The EERC is working withã Â Vermont-basedã Â Wynntryst to develop a gasification power system to use the waste from the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters processing plant to produce energy.
Never heard of Green Mountain? Ã Â It's likely you've sipped their product.
The waste stream that will be used includes coffee residues, plastic packaging, paper, cloth or burlap and plastic cups.
What a waste Meanwhile up in the sky, and other alternatives to corn: Sydney to London on the Plastic Fantastic powered flight Move over graphene:
In February 2009, Elmore's nonprofit group, Elemental Impact, convinced Atlanta officials and its biggest food-service outfits to launch the nation's first-ever Zero Waste Zone around its downtown hotels
In Atlanta, the zero-waste zone downtown has brought new players into the market, lots of entrepreneurs and energy, said Abbey Patterson,
not blue) and the date that the Atlanta Zero Waste Zoneã Â began (Feb. 2009, not last January).
Now we're looking at a project to treat our own waste--we're working on using our own membrane technology.
(which is a waste of gas) and long delivery stops (even though the drivers are, in essence, customer service representatives and are encouraged to talk to clients,
Aside from being an enormous waste of an incredibly versatile and energy-dense resource, that's a major sacrifice of income.
the UK's Institution of Mechanical engineers says in  Waste Not Want Not-Global Food waste:
It is also an unnecessary waste of the land, water and energy resources that were used in the production, processing and distribution of this food.
and waste by developing more efficient ways of growing, transporting and storing foods, Fox says.
which uses fish waste to fertilize soil, and hydroponics, a method that relies solely on nutrient-rich water.
they're left with clean water and something called sewer sludge that's packed with human waste, toxins,
Kansas city-owned farm turns human waste into revenue Kansas city Star h/t Grist Photo: Flickr/pasa47
Three billion people live in rural areas that have lots of plastic junk, says Joshua Pearce, the project lead at Michigan Technological University.
Or maybe someone could mine the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Pearce says that it takes about 20 milk jugs to produce about 1 kilogram of plastic filament,
there's a little suction where the garbage goes. The astronauts can sit over that, so the crumbs will go right into the suction.
Because it's made from decomposing waste that would otherwise go back into the atmosphere, when it's converted to charcoal we can sequester that carbon in the ground.
In Beijing, turning Kung Pao Chicken into organic fertilizerbeijing--For a place which deals with tons of rotting garbage each day,
Abandoned chopsticks are shaken out of the garbage at Goldenway's Gaoancun plant. After rouge chopsticks
and other nonorganic waste are filtered out, the remaining waste is poured into vats heated at 80 degrees Celsius,
where it mixes with a specially manufactured enzyme. Ten hours later, the waste emerges as a powdery brown  coloured  fertilizer,
which the plant s designers say is ideal for growing organic fruit and vegetables. Food waste accounts for more than half of the nearly 20,000 tons of garbage Beijing generates daily, most
of which is buried underground. Beijinger s penchant for fried food means that the city s waste is surrounded by a layer of cooking oil,
The company sells its waste generated fertilizer to organic farms, answering a pressing need in China,
while water and carbon dioxide are the only waste products from the process, the firm's PR manager Yi Dan said.
The garbage takes 10 hours to decompose into fertilizer. Goldenway has opened eight similar plants across China.
 The company's secret is its garbage eating enzyme, developed in a lab in the Southern Chinese city of Chengdu, according to Yi.
calling on the local government to cancel the construction of one of the firm's waste food processing plants in their neighborhood,
can often be grown on organic waste, frequently prefer to be packed together, and reach maturity in a matter of weeks.
the water with fish waste is pumped into a gravel bed where the plants are growing,
when food is still safe to eat could prevent such waste, Cooksey said. But to follow through on the sustainability mission,
The company has cut the net waste from its manufacturing plants by 30 percent against 2005 levels (its goal was 15 percent.
N. J.,-have achieved zero-waste-to-landfill status. Kraft has managed a 15 percent reduction in energy use;
Food security Peter Singer argued that we waste most of the food value of the grains and soybeans we feed to animals.
while the water and garden corridors help to filter out the pollutants. Adopting a natural system,
Our Suffolk, Va.,plant achieved zero waste to landfill status this year. Our Fort Smith, Ark.
and trucks release plenty of pollutants and greenhouse gases that facilitate global warming, but emit few aerosols that counteract them.
the burning of household biofuels such as wood and manure. The third: agriculture, in the form of raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle.
and process human waste and turn it into useful resources, such as energy and water. The end goal is to improve sanitation in a world where 1. 5 million children die every year due to diarrhea caused by food
and water tainted with fecal matter. The competitors could design just about whatever kind of toilet they wanted.
The Gates Foundation brought in 50 gallons of fake feces made from soybeans and rice for the demonstrations,
The reactor breaks down water and human waste into fertilizer to be used for agriculture, and hydrogen,
000 for a toilet the sanitizes feces and urine and recovers resources and clean water.
Eawag, or The swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and EOOS received a $40, 000 special recognition prize for their design of a toilet user interface.
00 grant to develop a prototype toulet that removes water from human waste and vaporize it using a hand-operated vacuum pump and membrane system.
RTI International received a $1. 3 million grant to fund the development of a self-contained toulet system disinfects liquid waste and turns solid waste into fuel or electricity through a biomass energy
to disinfect liquid-solid waste and produce biological charcoal that be used as a replacement for wood charcoal or chemical fertilizers.
These natural infrastructure projects filter rainwater and allow it to slowly seep back into the ground rather than runoff into waterways, taking pollutants with it.
Nearly three-quarters of the blight's genome consists of junk DNA, unused sequences that evolve quickly.
Thus junk DNA isn't junk at all. Now that we have its notes Nusbaum told Nature,
 The plants will also absorb two of the city s biggest pollutants: carbon dioxide and sound.
â Å we â â¢re not going to set them up for success academically. â  Revolution Foods ignored critics who said kids would never give up junk food.
and filtering pollutants. But it's not just rooftop gardens, Singapore's Today reports: These measures are to be complemented with diversion canals, storage tanks along pathways of drains, drain capacity improvements,
Organic waste that creates methane is another focus of the company's sustainability initiatives; since 2005 the company has reduce its solid wate sent to landfill by 60 percent.
although the U s. Space Surveillance Network is supposed to be watching for debris. A second generation ICESAT won't be launched before 2015.
and the recycling of waste into usable resources. In an ecosystem, assemblages of plants and animals are linked together by a common thread:
and converting organic waste into energy. Here he is in a video explaining his take:
Disposing of so much waste has been a problem. Kingston, Tennessee had a containment pond spill about a billion gallons of liquid coal ash,
If coal power generators had to responsibly handle their wastes, coal would not be so much cheaper than solar and other renewable power sources.
pollutants such as mercury may become more concentrated in the combustion residue, reports 60 minutes. Currently LEED standards limit the amount of mercury in cement made with coal ash to 5. 5 parts per billion.
What's more, the peels are a cheap waste material. Castro found they could be used up to 11 times before they stopped working as purifiers.
is standing at a workstation littered with the detritus of his trade: tiny silver screws, peels of plastic and cartons overflowing with spare parts.
and the waste generated by his 20 jumbo goldfish. Wastewater is what fertilizes the 27 strawberry plants from last summer, too.
you can use municipal waste. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, you can use wood waste.
Florida has sugar. The Midwest has corn. Each region has been blessed with the ability to grow its own biomass."
and the ammonia level of its faeces will drop within three days, he added
Device that harvests water from thin air wins the James Dyson Awardyoung Melbourne-based inventor Edward Linacre has won the 2011 James Dyson Award,
For instance, the waste that New york city produces every hour weighs as much as the Statue of liberty--in the future that waste could be recompacted into building blocks,
such as using manure for fertilizer, were already in use. The 19th century paved the way for technology developments;
and plowed under as soil-replenishing oegreen manure in spring. On another plot, instead of red clover the researchers planted a fourth-year crop of alfalfa,
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