Sentence examples for benign alternative from inspiring English sources

Sluggo, an environmentally benign alternative to conventional snail baits, is based on iron phosphate, harmless to everything but mollusks.

You'll probably be O.K., but it's not a totally benign alternative.

That was such a Bahai thing to do, to trust in humanity's better nature and offer a benign alternative to cruelty.

The goal, according to Clive Bates, a former director of Action on Smoking and Health, a British campaigning group, and a tireless advocate of e-cigarettes, is not to lose the chance of millions of smokers switching in whole or in part to a relatively benign alternative.

Biofuel is perceived by its advocates as a cost-effective and environmentally benign alternative to petroleum and other fossil fuels, particularly within the context of rising petroleum prices and increased concern over the contributions made by fossil fuels to global warming.

Desiccant/evaporative cooling systems offer an environmentally benign alternative to conventional vapor compression chillers.

Like other fluorocarbons, it was outlawed and replaced with supposedly benign alternatives.

For while the HCFCs are now being phased out, there remains another category of ozone-friendly but powerfully warming refrigerant gases in widespread and fast growing use, even though environmentally benign alternatives exist (see here and here and here and here and here): the HFCs.

Therefore, the search for benign alternatives has become increasingly important and urgent.

Room-temperature ionic liquids are regarded as environmentally benign alternatives to volatile organic solvents.

These processes offer environmentally benign alternatives to conventional lipid fractionation methods that rely on toxic solvents.