The laborers were specialized, said Mahdavi, each gathering a specific type of waste.
TerraCycle, Zakes added, is building recycling infrastructure by developing technologies and generating the critical mass of specific kinds of waste needed to make recycling economically feasible.
The city therefore entered into an agreement directly with a landfill operator for a specific tonnage of waste it could dispose.
While the report does not outline specific instances of waste, it asserts that the shortcomings in the ministry leave American taxpayer dollars at high risk of waste, abuse and fraud, especially since there is no formal system to vet whether the work being paid for is actually done.
The premise is simple: sign up on our Web site, fill a box with a specific type of waste, send it TerraCycle and we'll donate 2 cents (or the foreign equivalent) for every unit of waste to the charity or school of your choice.
The large specific amount of waste generated during cleaning is a serious environmental disadvantage of traditional batch processes.
All specific contents of waste constituents reported in this study are based on dry weights.
Without the acid phase digesters, the specific methane yield of waste activated sludge (WAS) was 190 L/kgVSadded, whereas a specific methane yield of WAS of 231 L/kg VSadded was observed from sludge sampled from the acid phase digester.
Research specific to waste incinerators has provided mixed evidence for the effects of proximity to incinerators on health.
2. … End-of-waste specific criteria should be considered, among others, at least for aggregates, paper, glass, metal, tyres and textiles".
