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World Plastics Council Lauds G20 Efforts to Reduce Marine Litter

2017-07-10 20:19:06| Waste Age

Plastics makers agree with G20 leadership and the growing scientific consensus to develop an integrated and sustainable waste management infrastructure.

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U.N. Ocean Conference Concludes with Call for Action on Marine Litter

2017-06-12 20:31:00| Waste Age

Topics that were discussed included plastic pollution in the oceans and seas to ocean acidification and illegal fishing.

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Large litter size vs. low average birth weight its a production trade-off

2016-11-21 11:49:00| National Hog Farmer

By Jenny Patterson and George Foxcroft, Swine Research & Technology Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Within a commercial multiplication program, the lower litter birth weight phenotype presents an additional risk, as this phenotype is a repeatable trait in a sow's productivity life, and the sow passes on these traits to her progeny. read more

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A biogas plant in Ireland to use chicken litter to generate renewable energy

2016-06-21 01:00:00| Power Technology

A new 20m biogas plant is being constructed in Ireland to treat large volumes of chicken, which will generate 3MW of renewable energy from up to 40,000t of chicken litter each year.

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