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Queen Mary 2 passing Calshot light buoy in The Solent, outward bound from Southampton 29 August, 2009. Solid waste is separated by kitchen staff or stewards who empty waste bins in passenger rooms. It is then processed depending on the type of waste.
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The conception of this district is based on permaculture, and organic design, a small biogas installation (able to treate black water and organic waste and garden & park waste), a combined Heat Power. Some houses are in closed greenhouse. A semi-public building (the ‘EVA Centre) should yet be made, based on the Living Machine concept.
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Trash bins - Waste management - Eco-friendly- Proper waste segregation
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A landfill in Poland A landfill, also known as a dump (and historically as a midden), is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment.
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Gas street lamp
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Waste collection in Ouagadougou (pronounced /ˌwɑːɡəˈduːɡuː/, Mossi: [ˈwaɡədəɡə]) is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic center of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 1,475,223 (as of 2006). The city's name is often shortened to Ouaga. The inhabitants are called ouagalais. This waste chariot with donkey is collecting rubbish, trash, refuse, garbage, or junk and unwanted or unusable materials.
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A large (and oversized) compost pile that is steaming with the heat generated by thermophilic microorganisms.
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Anaerobic digestion and regenerative thermal oxidiser component of Lübeck mechanical biological treatment plant in Germany, 2007
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A preserved medieval waste pipe in Stockholm Old Town used to guide sewage onto the street where rain eventually would carry it away. Sewage is water-carried wastes, in either solution or suspension, that is intended flow away from a community.
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Vermicompost; Worm waste; Organic Fertilizer; Farming
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The Experience Music Project in Seattle. The buildings waste structural resources by creating functionless forms.
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Intermodal transfer station
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Biologist J. Craig Venter poses at his home in Alexandria, Va. Friday, July 1, 2005. Venter has formed a new company that will try to manufacture organisms for industrial purposes by piecing together a genes, the building blocks of life. The goal is to cobble together the genes of single-cell life forms that can perform tasks such as cleaning up hazardous waste, removing carbon dioxide spewed out by power plants or creating new drugs.
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An example of a simple use of biomass fuel (Combustion of wood for heat).
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The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract), also called the digestive tract, alimentary canal, or gut, is the system of organs within multicellular animals that takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste. The maj
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Earthworm feces aid in provision of minerals and plant nutrients in an accessible form. After an animal has digested eaten material, the remains of that material are expelled from its body as waste.
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Inside a recently started Bokashi bin. The aerated base is just visible through the food scraps and Bokashi bran.
photo: AP / Salvatore Laporta
** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008 file photo Roberto Saviano, a writer and expert on the Neapolitan organized crime syndicate, the Camorra, gestures during an AP Television interview in Naples. Naples-based prosecutor Franco Roberti said Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 that his unit is looking into an informant's claim that the Camorra crime syndicate is planning to kill Roberto Saviano by December. Saviano has been under police protection since 2006 when his book "Gomorra'' denouncing the Camor
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The rugged coastline of the volcanic island of Santorini. party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species,
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Feedstock
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Rotary screen harvested worm castings
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Exterior of the relocated Wal-Mart in Niagara Falls, New York. At 204,000 sq.ft., this is by far the largest store in the area.
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Maceration (food)
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Brachiopod
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Compost
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Lamb kidneys
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Acidogenic anaerobic digestate
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Serbian Spruce
photo: AP / Riccardo De Luca
The head of Opus Dei, Monsignor Javier Echevarria, second left, with members of Opus Dei, looks at and comments an Italian newspaper with an interview on the "The Da Vinci Code" book and film premiering Wednesday May 17, 2006 at the Cannes film festival, during an interview with AP Television News at the Villa Tevere Opus Dei headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday May 17, 2006.
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Pipes carrying biogas