6environmental performance of packaging

... Glossary of Terms Foreword Foreword Foreword by the President of The Brewers of Europe I am delighted to welcome The Brewers of Europe’s first ever report on ‘The Environmental Performance of the ... environmental impact of packaging The main focus areas are in using reusable packaging, recycling, light weighting and increasing the proportion of recycled materials in newly made packaging The packaging ... 12% of the total number of breweries (including both micro and macro breweries) and 62% of the total beer production volume, excluding soft drinks, or 65% including soft drinks, in 2010 90% of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... terms of the area of the city (in km/km2); and Total length Min-max of all superior modes of public transport, i.e BRT, trolleybus, tram, light rail and subway, measured in terms of the area of ... Index, which produce an average of 657 kg of waste per person per year Brasília collects and disposes of 95% of its waste, just below the 17city average of 96% It is one of the few major cities in ... category The city of Buenos Aires collects and adequately disposes of 100% of its waste, compared to the 17-city average of 96% However, the city of Buenos Aires generates 606 kg of waste per person...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... and only collects 63% of it, versus the Index average of 83% Much of Bangkok’s waste is disposed of in landfills after being transported to one of three sorting yards, but officials are concerned ... Santos, one of the most advanced thinkers of his time, said that poverty is the worst form of pollution Informal settlements are living proof that we are not planning our cities well Often cities ... the artificial island of Yumeshima in the city’s harbour Bangkok is promoting the use of biofuels The authorities aim to increase the proportion of gasohol — a mixture of gasoline and ethanol...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:07

... has one of the highest percentages of green space, belying its population density sions per capita and CO2 emissions per unit of GDP With emissions of 145 metric tons of CO2 per $1 million of GDP, ... higher 581 gigajoules per $1 million of GDP, whereas the US cities consume an average of 277 gigajoules per $1 million of GDP ➔ A lack of data on the proportion of renewable energy used by cities ... encouragement of the City of Denver, its Botanic Gardens, Colorado State University and other groups have identified a range of plant species suitable to create green roofs (roofs covered in...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:11

... distributions of properties and performance of a single CFCC for a large statistical sample for design purposes, and ) t o provide statistical distributions of properties and performance of a single ... and modulus of toughness Results Because of the nature of the round robin, confidentiality of the identities of the participating laboratories is preserved, except for the University of Washington, ... The advancement of technology has often been limited by the availability of materials and understanding of their behavior Reflecting this emphasis on materials, in the technology of today, the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 15:41

... Council of the European Communities, Council Directive of 12 June 1986 on the Protection of the environment, and in particular of the soil, when sewage sludge is used in agriculture (86/278/EEC), Of cial ... immobilization of heavy metals Solubility of all metals is strongly dependent on the redox potential and pH (Sims and Patrick, 1978) With an exception of As, Se, and Mo, the solubility of most metals ... ability of some plants to accumulate high amounts of heavy metals into their tissues (“hyperacummulators”) for removing them from contaminated soils Neutralization of acidic or alkali soils is one of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Fine-root production dominates response of a deciduous forest to atmospheric CO2 enrichment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 26, 9689-9693 Norby, ... utilization of biofuels in such controlled combustion processes has the great benefit of not further depleting the limited resources of fossil fuels, yet it is associated with emissions of greenhouse ... during combustion of biofuels is poorly understood in terms of its chemical composition and physical properties Biofuel combustion generates smoke particles which are predominantly of carbonaceous...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 12:20

... temperature profiles (p < 0.001) As observed on site 1, vegetation maintained Performance of four seedling stock sizes 695 Table II P values and degrees of freedom (df) from the analysis of variance of ... a half of each plot; within each of these subplots, four rows were laid out and assigned at random to one of the four sizes of seedlings Within each row or sub-subplot, seven seedlings of a given ... competing vegetation effects by means of competition – free seedlings, instead of release treatments The objectives of this study were first, to quantify the net effect of non-crop vegetation on soil...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... discharge of 25 million gallons of manure from swine farms in North Carolina was documented (Meadows, 1995; Warrick, 1995) Subsequent discharges of hundreds of thousands of gallons of manure ... Assessment for the Use and Disposal of Sewage Sludge: Benefits of Regulation Prepared for Health and Ecological Criteria Division, Office of Science and Technology, Office of Water, U.S Environmental ... sources of nonpoint pollution in coastal waters Office of Water 840-B-92-002 January USEPA 1993b The reports of the EPA/State Feedlot Workgroup U.S Environmental Protection Agency Office of Wastewater...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... indicator of the level of precision and accuracy of the process so as to impart the desired quality to the fabric in the first instance of processing For example, an RFT of 70% means that 30% of the ... benefits of good management of resources and processes from the point of view of economy may also be viewed for their positive environmental impact These are as follows: ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ Increased profits ... minimisation in textile dyeing 129 of reuse of dye bath no doubt helps in giving consideration to the environmental aspects of dyeing by repeated use of water and a part of the chemicals and dyes However,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:22

... could reduce the number of stimulations needed to observe the response decrease However, given the neurotoxic action of IMI, the absence of the PER could indicate a problem of gustatory perception ... effect of chronic surgical and pharmacological treatments [18–20] We attempted to develop a functional histochemistry of CO in honey bee brain that allowed the analysis of the short-term effect of ... bottom right-hand side of the box allowed the introduction of a single honey bee for a 5-min observation period The position of the honey bee was recorded every s The duration of successive 5-s periods...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... R.5 Amount and quality of off-site materials used R.5.1 Use of salvaged materials from offsite sources R.5.2 Recycled content of materials from off-site sources R.5.3 Use of wood products that ... equivalent Use of salvaged materials from offsite sources Recycled content of materials from off-site sources Use of wood products that are certified or equivalent Off-site re-use or recycling of steel ... relationship of public housing built form and a system of environmental performance There are currently two established system of environmental performance in literature the Total Building Performance...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... objective of land use performance and that of visual privacy performance In the early decades, the design of public housing often traded off visual privacy performance owing to the rigorous layout of ... existence of a potential discrepancy between the objective of land use performance and that of daylighting performance Land use performance and daylight factor When mapping the indicative performance ... indicative performance trend of land use performance and the one of impact on access to daylight of adjacent property At more detailed level, case studies with higher land use performance have low performance...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... Failure of environmental performance over significances of socio-economics Firstly, within the environmental performance domain, there are often conflicts among different environmental performance ... application of Green Plot Ratio: The case study of One North Research report Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore Ong, B L., & Hawkes, D (1997) The Sense of Beauty – Role of Aesthetics ... environmental performance criteria of GBTool2kV1.81 and a number of additional criteria in a new structure (Table 14-1) 333 Assessment structure of GBTool2kV1.81 Assessment structure of GBTool 2005...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... use of primary energy Use of land and change in quality of land Resource Consumption Net consumption of potable water Re-use of existing structure or on-site materials Amount and quality of off-site ... The process consists of the definition, structuring and scoring of a range of collectively agreed performance criteria – the GBC assessment framework, the development of a software version to operationalize ... environmental performances of 30 case studies, selected from the current housing stock of Singapore public housing The selection of case studies are carried out with objectives of good representative of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:22

... limit, Maximum no of runs, Number of times to randomise weights, Size of training, test and validation sets) Topology (Number of inputs neurons, Number of hidden layers, Number of hidden neurons ... the N m −1 neurons of the previous layer by a set of weights ωij , j = N m −1 The output y im of the neuron I i belonging to the layer m is a function of the weighted sum of the output coming ... some of the restrictive assumptions of the earlier statistical models as explained in the beginning of the chapter The scope of this master thesis is to test the efficiency and the accuracy of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 20:00

... burst One source of co-channel interference, de-correlated in time with frequency offset One source of adjacent channel interference, de-correlated in time with 200 kHz of frequency offset One time ... burst One source of co-channel interference, de-correlated in time with frequency offset One source of adjacent channel interference, de-correlated in time with 200 kHz of frequency offset [ET99a] ... burst One source of co-channel interference, de-correlated in time with frequency offset One source of adjacent channel interference, de-correlated in time with 200 kHz of frequency offset One time...

Ngày tải lên: 26/04/2013, 11:15

... holiday , but they ( )…………… the New Year on January 1.Their most important vacations are Easter , 4th of July , ( Christmas Thanksgiving ) …………… and ( ) ………… …… They usually spend time with their families ... Teacher’s Day Independence Day Mother’s Day HOMEWORK :  Discuss about what you and your friends often in the vacations  Prepare the next lesson : A4 ...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2013, 01:25

... objective: (1) the long term performance of demonstration system treatment of village sewage (2) the performance of demonstration systems when suffering the impulse load of stormwater and its effect ... resist the impulse load of stormwater and had a good capacity to reduce the large amounts of pollutants brought by the stormwater runoff in a short time Table Removal performance of the constructed ... the design requirement - 53 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.2, No.2, 2004 Table Removal performance of constructed wetland system treatment of village COD TN NH4+-N TP Average...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40