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Waste United States, yearly total

The volume of nuclear wastes produced is relatively small compared with the volume of municipal solid wastes and industrial wastes and is very much less than that of agricultural and mining wastes. Each year, for example, the 104 nuclear power plants now operating in the United States generate a total of about 30,000 short tons (27,000 metric tons) of nuclear waste. That volume is about 0.001 percent the amount of hazardous wastes produced every year. In the five decades that nuclear power plants have been operating in the United States, a total of about 9,000 short tons (8,200 metric... [Pg.166]

A goal of reducing total mercury releases in the United States by 33% between 1988 to 1992, and 50% by 1995 was set by the EPA. The 1992 goal was more than achieved United States reportable mercury releases were reduced by 39% by 1991 (26). In the United States, discards of mercury in municipal soHd waste streams were approximately 643 t in 1989 (3). As a result of increased restrictions on the use and disposal of mercury, by the year 2000 mercury in municipal soHd waste streams is expected to be about 160 t (3). [Pg.108]

At the low end is the United States, where biomass energy accounted for only about 3 percent (2.7 quadrillion Btus) of the total energy consumption in 1997. However, biomass use had been rising over the previous five years at an average rate of about 1 to 2 percent per year, but fell in 1997 due to a warmer-than-average heating season. Bioenergy produced in the United States is primarily from wood and wood waste and municipal solid waste. [Pg.158]

Soil fumigation is the primary use of bromomethane in the United States, accounting for approximately 65% of total consumption (EPA 1989c lARC 1986). Based on reported production for 1984 (43 million pounds), this would be about 28 million pounds/year. However, as discussed in Section 5.3.1, most bromomethane will tend to evaporate from the soil within 1-2 days, so soil contamination is normally not persistent. No industrial releases of bromomethane to soil were reported for 1987 (TRI 1989 see Table 5-1), and bromomethane has not been detected in soils or sediments at 455 hazardous waste sites, including 99 NPL sites (CLPSD 1989). [Pg.72]

By contrast, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from time to time reports on the number of active landhlls in the United States. As shown in the graph on page 142, that number has continued to decline for many years. In 2001, the EPA reported the existence of 1,858 landhlls in the United States. Still, the total volume of solid wastes in such landhlls remains about constant because the size of individual landhlls continues to grow. [Pg.141]

Figure 2. Yearly total volume of commercial low-level waste buried within the conterminous United States... Figure 2. Yearly total volume of commercial low-level waste buried within the conterminous United States...
Methylenediphenyl diisocyanate can be released to the environment in waste stream emissions from sites of industrial manufacture and use. Toxic Release Inventory reports to the United States Environmental Protection Agency before at least the mid-1990s were subject to serious overestimation of the releases to the environment, because of errors in the way that the figures were calculated by industry. Within the European Union, total emissions from production sites in 1996 were about 43 kg and emissions from processing plants in the same year were about 7100 kg (European Union, 1999). [Pg.1050]

A joint venture of a leading plastics manufacturer and a major waste management firm was established in 1990 to recycle PET and HDPE materials. The plan was that two existing plants would be joined by three additional iccycling opeiations by 1994. Jointly, the plants would tecycle about 200 million pounds of these plastics per year. Taken in perspective, however, this is a small quantity of the total of 1.5 billion pounds (PET) and 6.5 billion pounds (HDPE) disposed each year in the United States. [Pg.1715]

United States alone, 5 x 109 kg of plastic resins (typically used in packaging and transportation) are produced every year. Disposable goods and packing material represent about one-third of the total plastic production and have the largest environmental impact. More than 90% of the plastic material in municipal waste consists of polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polystyrene, which are all resistant to biodegradation (see Table 9.1). [Pg.318]

Peanuts are not a crop that can easily be carried over from one year to the next as noted by a comparison of the production and total consumption values across years (Table 1). Utilization of the peanut crop can be classified into the general areas of crushed, food, feed, seed, and waste. In 1972, the primary utilization in 7 of the 11 listed countries was the crushing of peanuts for oil and utilization of the resultant meal. The United States food utilization was more than twice that of the next country, Indonesia. In the United States, food utilization was nearly twice that of crushing utilization. In 2002, the number of countries having food as the primary utilization factor had increased to six and the United States and Indonesia were almost equal in food utilization (Table 1). [Pg.1073]

Wood is one of our most important renewable biomass resources. Unlike most biomass sources, wood is available year roimd and is more stable on storage than other agricultural residues. In the United States, wood residues from industrial by-products totaled 60.8 x 10 metric tons in 1993 (73). Increasingly, residues are incorporated into manufactured wood products and are used as a fuel, replacing petroleum, especially at wood-industry plants (73) some is converted to charcoal but most is used in the pulp and paper industry. Residues are also available for manufacturing chemicals, generally at a cost equivalent to their fuel value (see Fuels FROM BIOMASS Fuels from waste). [Pg.331]

In another inventory of various sources of wood wastes in the United States (McKeever, 1995), it was found that for 1991, 26.0 million dry tonnes of bark and 74.5 million dry tonnes of wood residues were generated at primary lumber processing mills. Only 5% of the bark and 6% of the wood residue were wasted and not used. The projection for 1993 based on these findings was that 5.7 million dry tonnes of bark and wood residues were available for recovery and use as an energy resource. The total of 100.5 million dry t/year generated at the mills is about 44% higher than the mill residues found in the Stanford assessment. [Pg.152]


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