"Things have been decomposing since the beginning of time, and it's remarkable how little we know about how things decompose and why they decompose."
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"In the right environment, our burgers, like most other foods, could decompose," the company wrote in a 2013 statement called 'Response to Myth that McDonald's Burgers Don't Decompose.
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When dumped in landfills, they can take centuries to decompose.
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"It can decompose into a nasty jelly," one expert says.
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"The world doesn't work if stuff doesn't decompose," she says.
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Some organic peroxides also produce flammable vapors as they decompose.
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Each pair takes more than 50 years to decompose, she said.
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Makeup wipes take can take up to 100 years to decompose.
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First, though, the body will decompose at the University of Tennessee.
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Authorities have said it is because of the way humans decompose.
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The spindly guitars sound like they could decompose at any second.
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The plant based sachets are biodegradable and decompose in around six weeks.
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One advantage of these techniques is that images, unlike bodies, don't decompose.
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Aluminum cans do decompose, but it can take up to 200 years.
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He literally yelled abuse at some rice, and it began to decompose.
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Plastic straws, FinalStraw says, are non-recyclable and don't decompose, polluting oceans.
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And Japanese macaques carry around their infant dead as the bodies decompose.
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Their soils don't decompose because they have very little oxygen in them.
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Our product can decompose within between six months to two years after disposal.
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Turn a Big Problem Into a Bunch of Small OnesWhen in doubt, decompose.
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"I know that single-use plastics take many years to decompose," she says.
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While all plastic takes a long time to decompose, PET is especially resistant.
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They look as if they had been left to decompose in a forest.
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It can take six to nine months for the materials to decompose completely.
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But, as usual, we can decompose this force into horizontal and vertical components.
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The problem with plastic is that it is so durable; it won't decompose.
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Over time, they seem to decompose more easily than dramas, revealing off flavors.
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"When you die, your bones will decompose in less than a century," Haskins writes.
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Just as responsibility for optimization would decompose downward, so too would responsibility for reliability.
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The release of more greenhouse gases as organisms decompose in newly active soil layers.
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They decompose organic waste and feed a large proportion of all birds and bats.
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They eat waste, decompose detritus, spread nutrients and act as food for many species.
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Most disposable diapers contain petroleum-based plastics and take hundreds of years to decompose.
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Finger and toe bones disintegrate; bones commingle and decompose on top of one another.
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The rest end up in landfills where it takes approximately 1,000 years to decompose.
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In the Middle Ages, people didn't understand that a corpse would not necessarily decompose.
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Here, the dead are buried in loose white cloth, and the bodies quickly decompose.
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Other supposedly biodegradable materials, such as paper and wood, often do not decompose at all.
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They could be sent off on missions in the wild then left to naturally decompose.
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But the nature of the Novichok group of agents means it does not decompose quickly.
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Before they arrive, you take some kitchen waste and let it decompose a little bit.
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And Pia Interlandi's Garments for the Grave are designed to decompose along with the bodies.
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This process produces energy along with biochar, a waste material that takes millennia to decompose.
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Well here's a potential long-term solution for all of us: plastics that actually decompose.
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"The box will decompose before the food does," Lovdahl wrote in the description of another photo.
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In Africa, the heat caused dead plants to decompose more quickly, releasing high amounts of CO2.
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By the time the bodies could be prepared for burial, they had already begun to decompose.
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He employed a more powerful version of Volta's battery to decompose molten materials, rather than solutions.
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In 85033, a study was conducted to decompose the cost of producing an iPhone in China.
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"Most of the mass is actually large debris, ready to decompose into microplastic," Mr. Lebreton said.
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Some flavorings decompose when heated and generate molecules that are not in the base e-liquid.
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According to the experts, a bog body should begin to decompose rapidly when exposed to air.
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I Googled how long it takes for a body to decompose (you don't want to know).
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"We wrap the bodies and dance with the corpses while they decompose," says anthropologist Dr Miora Mamphionona.
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Responsibilities would decompose downward again — the second layer would be responsible for its own optimization and reliability.
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The company, Skipping Rocks Lab, says the membranes decompose after four to six weeks if not consumed.
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It's key to digitize them because they're made of old cellulose acetate, so they decompose over time.
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For one, this is wood that's already destined to decompose and release its carbon into the air.
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The researchers found that these types of carbon decompose with relatively low heat, according to the statement.
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The goal is for the person and the casket to decompose and become one with the earth.
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But consider for a moment that your tossed toothbrush will take up to 400 years to decompose.
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The Foreo Luna Go facial brush Makeup wipes take can take up to 100 years to decompose.
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Once you have a sense for how your product will be used, you can decompose from there.
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Dead trees also add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, releasing them when they are burned or decompose.
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They decompose decaying matter, they aerate the soil, they pollinate the plants, which then create the forests.
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Put them in the compost pile to decompose a little while," goes the song "In Dead Earnest.
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Once discarded into the environment, it takes an average of 450 years for just one bottle to decompose.
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It can take up to four years for a latex balloon to decompose, while mylar balloons take longer.
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Corals are often encircled by beds of seagrass, which die off and decompose every winter, releasing additional CO2.
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Some of these materials take decades to decompose and leak toxic materials into the ground along the way.
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Made of mushrooms and bacteria, the suit reduces toxins as you decompose so that your remains nurture vegetation.
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Sometimes people pour gallons of water onto the plot to wet everything in hopes it will decompose faster.
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As single-use plastics decompose, they release toxic chemicals that our damage natural habitat and harm marine animals.
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They are typically not re-useable, can become brittle and break, and take thousands of years to decompose.
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He said the mother has traveled more than 1,000 miles with the corpse, which has begun to decompose.
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But unlike plastic bottles, the pouches, which are created from seaweed extracts, decompose in less than two months.
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Roll'eat Boc'N'Roll Reusable Sandwich Wrapper - £2100 See Details Plastic bags can take up to 22.79 years to decompose.
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I thought it would just decompose and no one would know and we could just forget about it.
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According to China's National Space Administration, they will decompose and remain sealed to avoid contaminating the lunar surface.
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Buried vegetation also began to thermally decompose near flowing lava, releasing methane that burst into eerie blue flames.
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By mowing over the leaves, you help break them down so they can decompose and feed the grass.
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Buildings that grow and regenerate like plants also decompose like plants, and that is what excites Mr. Benjamin.
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Single-use plastic bottles can take hundreds of years to decompose, posing a major threat to the environment.
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The fact that stuck with me came from Googling how long it takes for plastic bags to decompose.
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That crap causes the stuff on the bottom of the water to decompose and saps it of its oxygen.
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Mostly made of strong plastic such as nylon, this lost gear known as ghost nets doesn&apost easily decompose.
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Critics say these items take decades or more to decompose and end up polluting landfills and bodies of water.
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The eagles fly the dead salmon carcasses into the middle of the forest, which decompose and feed the trees.
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Alkaline hydrolysis was originally marketed as a way to rapidly decompose animal bodies and use their nutrients for fertilizer.
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The ones that have been dead longest float on the surface, buoyed by the gasses produced as they decompose.
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Filters are made of cellulose acetate -- a type of plastic that can take up to a decade to decompose.
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You don't want your Christmas tree to end up in a landfill, where it will take forever to decompose.
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Organic matter dumped in landfills — where it lacks the air to decompose quickly — generates methane gas, accelerating climate change.
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As long as he continued to make music, he told his family, "I'm not ready to decompose just yet."
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If you have a yard and enough space, Hartmann has another simple solution: Let it decompose in your backyard.
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Plants absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and pass carbon to the ground when dead roots and leaves decompose.
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The criminal complaint said the skin under Brianna&aposs diaper had already started to decompose when her body was found.
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Composting prevents emissions from the starter material — manure, food scraps — that, if allowed to decompose, might emit potent greenhouse gases.
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Some biodegradable materials take decades to decompose or they might breakdown only under certain conditions, like warm temperatures, he said.
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Reeves said these PLA straws can only decompose in an industrial composting facility, and U.K. facilities don't take PLA straws.
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Each child goes through 7,000 disposable diapers, on average, which take hundreds of years to decompose — and pose health risks.
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Based on that, only 0.17 percent of the total mass is taken away and the rest is left to decompose.
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A month after the tsunami, the air and water were cold, so the bodies had only just begun to decompose.
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It's not as heavy as it would be if it was filled with only soil, and the paper will decompose.
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The girls and women in this début collection of stories are monstrous: they molt, peel, fracture, decompose, murder, consume, engulf.
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As organic particles in the waste decompose, greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide escape and can contribute to global warming.
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The nutrients in the fertilizers feed algae that die, decompose and deplete the water of oxygen, the Louisiana scientists said.
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UK company Ronald Britton has created Bioglitter, which it calls the world's first plastic-free sparkles, which decompose in natural environments.
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" Brett Fors, a chemistry professor at Cornell, explains that when peroxides combust, "basically they decompose to nontoxic byproducts — C02 and water.
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This is another place where it's interesting to think about how humans decompose problems, often inefficiently — think leadership 101 for machines.
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AirPods are notoriously bad for the environment, as hard plastic can take up to 237,503 years to decompose in a landfill.
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In fact, filters are made of cellulose acetate -- a type of plastic that can take up to a decade to decompose.
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Along with terrestrial and aquatic plants, the soil microbes that decompose organic matter are major players in the global carbon cycle.
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Everything from meditating in charnel grounds, which are places where bodies decompose, to get a sense of why you repeat mantras.
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Ms. Cunningham discussed alternatives to embalming — which involves toxic chemicals — and coffins made of wool or other materials that decompose easily.
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When the chemicals warm, they start to decompose, which creates more heat and can quickly lead to a rapid, explosive reaction.
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"Potential buyers should note there are no clear instructions about what to do if the bananas start to decompose," CNN reported.
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Those massive organisms, called mycelia, both decompose matter that would otherwise choke the planet and help trees exchange nutrients and communicate.
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When trees are cut down and decompose or are burned, they release the carbon dioxide they soaked up from the atmosphere.
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That's why dead bodies decompose, but in a sense, it's also a way that our bodies live on after we die.
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Most die off in the winter and decompose, leaving behind a rich layer of organic matter that gradually sinks into the earth.
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Shark carcasses take up valuable hold space in smaller ships, and as they decompose, they produce ammonia that contaminates the other catch.
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As fall wears on, those plants lose their leaves, which in turn decompose, releasing the stored carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
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If we have something that's nitrate that's beginning to decompose, that will of course make it to the top of the list.
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Depending on moisture conditions, the SHERO pad can decompose in as little as a week, or can take up to three months.
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" In an interview with USA Today , he said, "You can't really feed a corpse" and "She is going to start to decompose.
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Fish killed using this method experience very little stress — and the lack of extra chemicals in their bodies means they decompose slower.
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In the intervening decades, thousands of films from these tests were left to collect dust and decompose in vaults around the country.
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When the permafrost thaws, "it starts to rot, it starts to decompose, and that's what's releasing carbon dioxide and methane," he says.
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Styrofoam containers take up to 1,000 years to decompose, according to the U.N.E.P., although other estimates say it can stick around forever.
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It&aposs critical that this is all done quickly, because the body starts to break down and decompose usually after 24 hours.
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Plants take it out of the atmosphere and convert it into plant tissue, and ultimately into soil when they die and decompose.
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In an announcement Tuesday, Just Eat said the container was able to decompose in four weeks if put in a home compost.
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There, he spent a year researching how fashion companies dispose of tanned leather, much of which is chemically treated and won't decompose.
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So if paper plants and sawmills burn residues and wastes that would otherwise quickly decompose, they wrote, that would be carbon neutral.
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Because plastic doesn't decompose quickly, when it becomes waste, it tends to either end up in landfills or wash into the ocean.
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The two siblings agreed — with a pinky promise, of course — to lock their parents' bodies in their bedroom and let them decompose naturally.
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A body, naturally, needing some time to decompose, the audio piece marks the passage of time using the symbolism of a moon's cycle.
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And since you don't usually wear your bridal gown twice, she was able to dispose of it to decompose in the open air.
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For example, swap a plastic straw -- which takes 450 years to decompose -- with a paper one, or simply don't use one at all.
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Gelatinous animals are in a particularly tough spot, because they decompose faster once they're eaten and also easily dissolve once caught in nets.
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"It clicked that these disgusting, toxic ponchos would be used a few times and then discarded, but they would not decompose," he said.
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By contrast, soil microbes that decompose organic matter are "sources" that burp out micro-bubbles of CO2 night and day, winter and summer.
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Much of the waste comes in the form of single-use items that do not decompose like bags, food packaging, straws and cutlery.
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Emergency responders and volunteers are racing to uncover those bodies before they decompose, potentially contaminating water sources and leading to outbreaks of disease.
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Silicon Valley works a bit like a forest — as old trees decay and die, they decompose and fertilize the next generation of growth.
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They drown or freeze to death — the river is ice-cold in the winter — and their bodies decompose quickly in the fresh water.
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"They're alerting for the decomposition chemical that happens as the human body and bones decompose, and this chemical is very unique," he said.
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The Heslington Brain turned this pattern on its head because it was the only tissue matter in the skull that did not decompose.
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This could interfere with an environment's natural allotment of fungi and bacteria and how they cycle nutrients and decompose matter like leaf litter.
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When it thaws, the organic matter begins to decompose, and the carbon enters the atmosphere as methane or carbon dioxide, adding to warming.
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Permafrost is what it sounds like: layers of permanently frozen ground that contains plants and organic matter that froze before they could decompose.
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Images captured by a Reuters videographer showed dozens of dead turtles, many beginning to decompose, caught in what appeared to be a net.
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Wanting his beloved wife to rest in peace with God as soon as possible, Shmuel won't rest well until she can fully decompose.
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Coffee pods yield nothing but shitty brown stew that tastes like dirt, and mountains of trash that will take thousands of years to decompose.
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After abusing the child, Walsh and his wife, Kristen Bury, allegedly left Chance's body to decompose in a crib for more than a week.
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Once you pour any of these products down your drain, their plastic ingredients can't be recycled and won't decompose in a wastewater treatment plant.
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Authorities say it's because of the way human bodies decompose and how feet are protected by shoes from the elements and nibbling marine creatures.
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Chemicals are disposed in our waterways, and more than half of all clothes produced end up in the landfill and take decades to decompose.
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"Trump will wither away, perish, and his body will decompose, but, the Islamic Republic will still be thriving," Mr. Khamenei proclaimed in a speech.
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You catch your breath, reminded of the everyday reach of the Nazi dragnet, of what diligence it took to decompose the German-Jewish world.
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The phytoplankton fall to the bottom of the ocean and decompose with bacteria there, using up all the oxygen and creating harmful algal blooms.
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If having a suit made of mushrooms decompose your body or a wicker basket casket don't appeal, why not shoot your ashes into space?
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It's a smart gnome for your lawn that can tell you the direction of the wind and inform your child that all living things decompose.
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There were so many that they began to decompose in the tropical heat, prompting the government to order mass burials over the following two days.
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Other times they are chopped down and allowed to decompose, which also results in greenhouse gases ending up in the atmosphere at an unnatural rate.
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His victims don't go down fighting; they turn to dust and drift away in the breeze, watching as their friends and their own limbs decompose.
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Landfills are the third largest source of methane pollution in the U.S., releasing the highly heat-trapping gas into the air as landfill contents decompose.
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Architect Katrina Spade recently proposed the Urban Death Project, involving specially designed towers where human remains could naturally decompose and be transformed into rich soil.
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Border Patrol agents said they found the body of the cousin, a young woman from Guatemala, four days later, starting to decompose in the heat.
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Andrea Sella, professor of inorganic chemistry at University College London, said Novichok nerve agents were designed to be quite persistent and did not decompose quickly.
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According to environmental organization Fashion Revolution, decomposing clothing releases methane (a harmful greenhouse gas), and synthetic fabrics can take hundreds of years to fully decompose.
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The idea sounds simple: When trees are cut down and decompose or are burned, they release the carbon dioxide they soaked up from the atmosphere.
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Matthew Broderick plays a community college science professor who Shmuel recruits to help him figure out how long it takes a human body to decompose.
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Scientists had discovered more than a decade earlier that CFCs release chlorine into the stratosphere as they decompose—depleting ozone—and are also powerful greenhouse gases.
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The pods biodegrade within six weeks if they're not eaten — a far cry from the 450 or more years it takes a plastic bottle to decompose.
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McFarland learned that she could let her body decompose in a "mushroom suit," which hastens the breakdown of a corpse using mushroom spores and other microorganisms.
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When McDonald's closed its last store in Iceland in 2009, customer Hjortur Smarason decided to buy a burger and fries and test whether it would decompose.
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Because this process entails removing so much material, each organ was also pretreated with paraformaldehyde so it wouldn't decompose, collapsing in on itself during the process.
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In lithium-ion batteries with organic electrolytes, some of the chemicals decompose into a solid, protective layer on the surface of the electrode during the first charge.
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Once the necropsy is completed the whale will either be buried or allowed to decompose into the environment, as an "ecological boon to the habitat," he said.
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If you take just the Facebook product, the big blue app, you can decompose it into 10 or 12 different applications that have different levels of amplification.
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The background: More than 90 countries have signed an agreement, known as the Stockholm Convention, to destroy stocks of PCBs, but they slowly decompose in the environment.
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At those landfills, they are further happy to inform us, the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins that we all throw out will decompose and turn into methane.
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From CD-ROMs to styrofoam cups to e-waste, we're quickly filling up our landfills, our oceans, and even our solar neighborhood with stuff that doesn't decompose.
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In 1974 scientists discovered that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), chemicals used in refrigeration and as propellants in products such as hairsprays, release chlorine into the stratosphere as they decompose.
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Skipping disposable toothbrushes (which take up to 400 years to decompose) is also an easy way to become a more eco-friendly household without changing any routines.
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In your essay, you point out that humans are also part of the food chain because we die and decompose in the earth just as animals do.
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Also, the lack of oxygen means that when your Christmas tree finally does decompose, it will release methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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The bottom is a breathless place—cold, acidic, anaerobic—with no oxygen to decompose the willow branches or the small, still faces of the foxes interred there.
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The amount of time it takes a single body to decompose depends on a whole range of variables, as Matthew Broderick's character points out in the film.
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Part of the hazard — and the appeal — of plastics is most of them can't decompose completely, which is why they've been found in growing concentrations across the oceans.
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A single filter can contaminate hundreds of liters of water because of the chemical substances it contains, and can take more than a decade to decompose, Poirson said.
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Collect food scraps, add some water, stir the mix to provide oxygen, let it all sit long enough to decompose, and voila: Your plants have never been happier.
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But, Corbett added, "we suggest families consider (United Tissue) first because they are local and time delay is critical," obliquely referring to the fact that bodies decompose quickly.
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By the time authorities found Collins-Smith, they said her body had already begun to decompose, which made the identification process more difficult, according to the Ark Times.
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In practice, it is neither possible nor sensible to try to decompose price movements in this way, which makes the whole argument about fundamentals versus speculation somewhat empty.
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Some said the construction of dams could contribute to climate change because organic matter submerged by dams and reservoirs may release significant amounts of methane when they decompose.
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Clothes float and take longer to decompose than flesh, and so sometimes bones return in the shape of a body, held together by coats, pants, gloves and sneakers.
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Do everything necessary to eliminate risks to humans, these experts argue, but otherwise leave dead trees alone to decompose or go up in flames and create new habitats.
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"It's an effort to preserve the body, because if it is kept in the mortuary it might decompose so we did this to preserve the body," Zahid said.
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Next, patients can try costlier alternatives such as botox injections, a device called miraDry that delivers electromagnetic energy to decompose sweat glands, or laser therapy to destroy them.
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Rouskey also advised Barker on which foods to include in the box, like thin-skinned fruits such berries that would likely totally decompose in the 40-day period.
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These are left on the lawn, where they naturally decompose and nourish the soil — and spare you from lugging the clippings to the curb or your compost heap.
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Landfills are packed so tightly that there's no oxygen, which organic materials need to decompose, said Jessica Davis, the director of the IUPUI Office of Sustainability in Indianapolis.
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They found that the composting process — using a large rotating bin and organic materials like grasses — is able to decompose the human bodies until only bones are left.
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Mr. Lamason said that leaving the carcasses in the water would have helped them decompose faster, but that might have posed a danger to people visiting the coast.
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There was an episode of Fixer Upper in which Chip grosses out Jo by swallowing a cockroach that's been left to decompose in the living room of a remodel.
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Instead, you would "decompose" the numbers and add 10 to the 5 and take away 2 — or the partner of 8 — in order to get to the answer: 13.
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The business said that before it had developed its technology, hygiene waste products were either sent to landfill – where a diaper could take 500 years to decompose – or burnt.
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Its transition into a park is an epic physical transformation, but even though the waste has been sealed securely, landfill gas is generated as organic material continues to decompose.
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Plastic doesn't decompose quickly (Styrofoam can take more than 500 years to breakdown), which means around 150 million tons of plastic are floating in the oceans, the report said.
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There is so much Sargassum seaweed in the Atlantic right now that you can see it from space, and when it washes up on shore to decompose, it stinks.
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Many things in the beauty industry are made with plastics that are hard to recycle or take decades to decompose, but not the haircare products from Love Beauty & Planet.
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PALU, Indonesia — The bodies piled up in the police hospital had begun to bloat and decompose when Sarah Wati arrived on Monday with a bullet wound in her foot.
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But in the wet mud underneath mangrove trees, there's very little oxygen, so the plant matter can't decompose and the carbon stored in it can't return to the atmosphere.
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The whales have mostly been showing up near inland waters in the Puget Sound and Salish Sea, decreasing the amount of space the mammals have to decompose naturally, officials said.
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"All these products which we use because of convenience take many hundreds of years" to even partially decompose, said Chitra Mukherjee, an environmental expert and head of operations at Chintan.
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As the carcasses decompose, they raise the phosphorous levels in the river by as much as 451%, the carbon by up to 191%, and the nitrogen by up to 78%.
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They were also meant to be preserved over the course of the exhibition, only to the degree that it wouldn't completely start to decompose in the first month or so.
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"Those that hit the shores either decompose along beaches, or may be removed by humans if they are perceived to be a health hazard or for scientific research," Chua said.
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The common ingredient in filters that spells danger for the environment comes in the form of cellulose acetate, a kind of plastic that takes at least a decade to decompose.
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Cirakoglu explained that, when someone has passed away and their remains are left for a considerable period of time, their body begins to decompose and produces a sort of dust.
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Pela cases are made from compostable materials, so once you're done with your case, it can safely decompose and re-enter the circle of life instead of creating plastic waste.
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A team of archivists and software engineers led by LLNL weapon physicist Greg Spriggs is working to find and digitize thousands of archival films before they completely decompose in storage.
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"If you look at the job of an architect and decompose it, many of those tasks don't require creativity at all"—and those ones, he said, are ripe for automation.
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"I begged and explained since he was likely dead at this point, we would be relieved if he was found before he started to decompose," Larry Weglarz said last week.
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Scientists like Miranda Wang are working on solutions to break down and convert what type of material, which is estimated to take hundreds of years to decompose in the environment?
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It takes at least 30 years to decompose, often longer, meaning every single pair of laddered pantyhose we've thrown in the bin will still be sitting in a landfill somewhere.
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It's a common misconception that hair and fingernails grow after death—that's an illusion created by dehydrating skin—but hair is made of a non-soluble protein, keratin, that doesn't decompose.
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According to its website, the suit has a built-in "biomix," made up of mushrooms and other microorganisms that help decompose the body, "neutralize toxins" and transfer nutrients to plant life.
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For that particular piece, I had to go back and look at that 85 percent multiple times, decompose it, and then recompose on a level that's palatable with powerful chocolate flavor.
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When the shoe is placed in water with a high enough concentration of a digestion enzyme (called 'proteinase'), it will lead to the protein-based yarn to decompose within 36 hours.
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Humans don't usually consider this value in an explicit way but if you decompose your decision process when playing the game, you are effectively short-handing this math in your head.
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"We decompose carbon and reassemble it with a different grain so it takes on a feminine sheen," he said, somewhat explaining the uncommon jewelry material that was neither metal nor gemstone.
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That's why the designer Jae Rhim Lee's Infinity Burial Suit — basically pajamas threaded with fungal spores bred to decompose bodies — can't really fulfill its promise to ensure you a speedier decomposition.
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"Plants are growing in permafrost regions, and when those plants die, because of the cold temperature, they don't fully decompose, so some of that organic carbon is left behind," Holmes says.
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Grow / Decompose, released in 2015 after Shevrin had moved over to LA, still had Young Jesus as the same band, sonically—Rossiter's voice had the same naive charm for a start.
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Insects like bees, spiders, beetles and flies are vital to the world's environment, helping to pollinate plants, naturally decompose dead wildlife and perform other tasks key to the circle of life.
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They were stored away, and the historic films were starting to decompose when the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which was taking care of the films, digitized them and uploaded them to YouTube.
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And the US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 26 billion pounds of textiles end up in a landfill each year; some of these items are made of fabrics that also never decompose.
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What they found: Wildebeest carcasses take about 28 days to decompose, and as they did they were integrated into the food chain at every level, from scavenging birds to fish to bacteria.
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Dan Ashe of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told Action News Jax that basking sharks may decompose in a such a way whereby they end up looking like a prehistoric creature.
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The stark reality is that our consciousness ends, we decompose and eventually, if we're lucky, the majority of our atoms end up in a distant star as opposed to a dog turd.
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Most of the sculptures at Arte Sella are made with natural materials and have their own life cycles; they change with the seasons and will eventually decompose, returning themselves to the earth.
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And we do it with leftovers from the manufacturing process—along with wood lost due to insects, disease and fire, that would otherwise decompose naturally emitting the carbon back into the atmosphere.
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They'll persist as they are, either wedged into their human-size vitrine and labeled "Her Coffin" (2016), or perhaps only as individual objects that refuse to decompose in the ground on their own.
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Most of the remains are in one cellar and after the installation of a glass window that changed air flow into the crypt, many of the mummies began to decompose, Piombino-Mascali said.
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Following the growth of roots is actually pretty captivating, seeing leaves and flowers decompose is weirdly fun, and watching all the bugs—so many bugs—pop up out of no where is neat.
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According to him, there are many green options available, including natural burial where unembalmed bodies are put into the ground, often covered in nothing more than a sheet, and allowed to decompose naturally.
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She's an advocate of skipping the use of embalming fluids, caskets and concrete burial vaults – and burying the body in a biodegradable shroud or a simple wood coffin that will decompose over time.
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Biodegradable bags are allowed only for frozen meat and fish, not for other items like fruit and vegetables because such bags still take as long as 24 months to decompose, the government says.
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Plastic bags, which often take centuries to decompose, can create a dreadful waste problem even though they're far from the largest source of plastic waste in America — about 12 percent of the total.
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In 2005, their projects included a sculpture made from frozen urine and a 180-foot pink toy bunny, which they left to decompose on the side of a mountain in the Italian Alps.
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That's because they decompose the issues into tests, frame the dispute as separable from broader foreign policy and remind stakeholders that to comply today increases the odds of getting them to comply tomorrow.
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Rice growers routinely flood their fields for irrigation and to decompose crop residue after harvest; through the conservation program, named BirdReturns, they do so during periods when the fields would have been dry.
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Most shoe waste is comprised of non-biodegradable plastic, leather and petroleum-based rubber, materials that take an average of 25 to 80 years to decompose naturally, multiple shoe companies told CNN Business.
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What happens, Rabalais explains, is that too many dissolved molecules of nitrogen and phosphorus from runoff stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, which fall to the bottom and decompose with bacteria that use up oxygen.
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"If we did not take that step back in 2001, those remains would have continued to degrade and decompose and the DNA identifications we're making this year probably would not be possible," Desire said.
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Also, perovskites as materials are not without their problems—in particular, a tendency to be a bit unstable in high temperatures and susceptible to moisture, both of which can cause the cells to decompose.
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Knowing the temperature and pressure at which parts of an ice giant's atmosphere start to decompose into their elementary constituents can help astronomers fix the relationship between the radius and mass of such planets.
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According to sneaker startup Nothing New, about 300 million pairs of shoes are thrown out every year and, on average, it takes 30-40 years for a pair to fully decompose in a landfill.
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"Behind the fun character of Garfield, there is plastic pollution that does not decompose in the ocean, and that we will continue to face for years," said Claire Simonin-Le Meur, a local volunteer.
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On average, it adds up to a pound of plastic bags per person, per year — which will either be dumped into the ocean or left to decompose for hundreds of years in a landfill.
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Their variety is stunning: Modernist towers preach cool minimalism, high-tech edifices lay bare their structures and systems, postmodern constructions embrace gaudy shapes and historical references, and today's towers often decompose before our eyes.
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The artists would retreat to the jungle "until time comes for the Institute to decompose like fallen branches on the humid forest floor," leaving behind a modernist ruin for others to contemplate a lost future.
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But some environmentalists have advocated for leaving the trees in the forests, saying it's part of the life-cycle of a forest for dead wood to decompose and provide wildlife habitat on the forest floor.
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Whereas salt and sunlight can cause plastics physically to break apart into smaller pieces, chemically the hydrocarbons linked together into the polymer chains of which plastics are made do not spontaneously decompose into other compounds.
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Like Lewis said ten freaking years ago, banana peels don't "quickly disappear"; at the peak of Ben Nevis, which is 33,409 feet above sea level; it can take years for a single peel to decompose.
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Catch. Even if the ball is in the coffin with him and lowered into the ground, where both he and the coffin decompose, causing the ball to touch the dirt hundreds of years from now?
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Many of the problems encountered with the material stem from the fact that the most popular plastics used today aren't biodegradable: The material doesn't decompose, and instead accumulates both on land and in the ocean.
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As water filters through the porous rock, it tends to decompose and drift away, leaving "extensive underground voids" in its wake—peppering the state with swaths of land that could open up at any moment.
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Instead of buying an expensive wooden casket that won't decompose until at least 50 years after the burial, you can buy a cardboard one from $95 and reduce carbon emissions by up to 50 percent.
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A lifetime of extremely stiff defense and Grade A on- and off-court eccentricity has been abandoned to the wastes of basketball history, left to decompose with the rest of the marginal and the forgotten.
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While the fish in the installation decompose, serving as a real-time memento mori, the glittery baubles decorating their bodies remain impervious, shining on despite the grotesque array of bacteria working double-time around them.
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Each year, over 300 million tons of plastic finds its way to a landfill or into the environment where it will take hundreds of years to decompose and kill all manner of wildlife in the meantime.
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Authorities had to start burying the dead in mass graves in Jeremie because the bodies were starting to decompose, said Kedner Frenel, the most senior central government official in the Grand'Anse region on Haiti's western peninsula.
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Plastics never fully decompose, so when they break down, what's left is microplastic: tiny particles with a diameter that ranges from about the width of a sesame seed down to that of a single human hair.
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More than 23 billion pairs of sneakers are made every year, over 300 million pairs are thrown out annually, and, on average, it takes 30-40 years for a pair to fully decompose in a landfill.
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The leaves that are raked up are taken to the park's wind rows, or compost piles, where they are left to decompose into the rich soil, which is then used in the park's gardens and landscape.
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When Abu Abdel Malik dug up his step-mother's body last Saturday to inter it beside the family's forebears in the Gogjali cemetery, he said it had begun to decompose and gave off a foul smell.
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That's when the almost mythical longevity of the sequined romper really begins: when it takes hundreds of years for the plastic—and synthetic materials like nylon, acrylic, or polyester, which is most likely contains—to decompose.
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It takes anywhere from between two to 10 weeks for the soft tissue on the carcass to decompose, and about seven years for the bone (which comprises about half of the animal's mass) to completely break down.
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"After gaining possession of the debit card, he brutally murdered her by repeatedly stabbing her and letting her body rot and decompose until being discovered," the investigator's statement, which was included in the Louisiana arrest warrant, reads.
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After introducing cattle to Australia at the turn of the 280th century, settlers soon found themselves overwhelmed by the problem of their feces: For some reason, cow pies there were taking months or even years to decompose.
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To manufacture this all-purpose food, companies have long mixed plant-based carbohydrates with byproducts from the meat industry (like organs) that might otherwise end up in a landfill where they would decompose and emit greenhouse gases.
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It wasn't immediately clear how long Collins-Smith had been dead when her body was found, but she was said to be wrapped in some sort of blanket and her body had begun to decompose, Ark Times reported.
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"Generally, if we were to cut our road verges and open grass areas less frequently, let some weeds grow along our pavements and leave leaves to decompose more, I think it would benefit insects a lot," he said.
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Alyson Krueger writes: Roses don't seem like such a kind gesture when you think about how they are shipped to the city on cargo planes from Ecuador, or how they decompose in landfills and convert to methane gas.
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According to a United Nations estimate, by 2050, there will be roughly 12 billion metric tons of plastic litter in landfills or the environment worldwide, and it will stay there for hundreds of years because plastics decompose so slowly.
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For us, we believe that there are-, we know that there are about a billion people in this world that are-, are caught up in the cycle of poverty, and when you decompose that, it's all linked to education.
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First, the waste will be treated with microbes that will decompose it, and then it will be filtered to remove solid waste (which will then get spun into compact, dry poop cakes that will be shipped back to Australia for disposal).
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They found disposable plastic plates, bowls, cups and utensils make up much of the plastic waste in Delhi's burgeoning landfills, where it can take up to up to 1,000 years to decompose and leak pollutants into the soil and water.
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Still, there are signs everywhere of Madere's love of things that move, decompose and shine: a TV set playing a looping tournament of the hoversled game Wipeout, a rolling projection of medieval manuscripts on the wall, flowers in glittery vases.
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Back at the scouts' hide-out, two volunteers with S.P.N.L. gave teams Eagle, Lion, Fox and Pegasus a lesson in the environmental dangers of discarded shells: besides the plastic, which would take years to decompose, lead could leak into the groundwater.
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"The ultimate goal is to find products that won't end up in a landfill and won't decompose — products that can be reused, recycled and pose no risk of chemicals leaching," said Lori Alper, the founder of the Groovy Green Living blog.
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"If [consumers] look at their wireline spend and they decompose it into, 'There's a certain amount that I pay for content and a certain amount that I pay for the transport or the connectivity,' there's a real opportunity with 5G," he said.
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Animal slurry, food scraps or garden clippings are placed in vessels that capture the methane as they decompose, leaving nothing but liquid and solid fertiliser—which add to the emissions savings by taking the place of chemical fertilisers made from fossil fuels.
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Suddenly, the traditional method of burying used pads with lots of lime to decompose them was not working - and the pads were just piling up in disposal pits on the leafy campus designed by eco-friendly architect Laurie Baker in the 1970s.
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He told me that dead whales, which emit large amounts of sulfur as they decompose, may have created a habitat to which some marine species learned to adapt to survive in the highly sulfuric conditions of deep-sea vents and cold seeps.
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In contrast, Dr. Steadman's research tested decomposition in 15 pigs, 15 rabbits and 15 human bodies that had been donated to science that were divided into three trials of five subjects of each species left to decompose in spring, summer or winter.
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"Some high-ranking officials see [cryptocurrencies] as a stressor to the central Party because it could decompose the authority of the Communist Party," says Yao Zhao, an economist at Beijing Normal University who formerly worked at the People's Bank on its cryptocurrency regulation.
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The burial suit spawned from the notion that mushrooms could be used to naturally decompose and cleanse toxins from a dead body, an idea manifested by a spore-laden jumpsuit meant to harmoniously eliminate pollutants while nourishing plants in the burial area.
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Because the assumption is that the cleared trees would decompose anyway, companies like Drax only have to count the carbon needed to turn from waste wood into fuel — gasoline for chainsaws, diesel for shipping — not the actual carbon that leaves their smokestacks.
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Once a necropsy is completed to declare the cause of death, the body of the whale will be left in the jungle to naturally decompose, while the skeleton will be dismantled and preserved in a Belem natural history museum for further analysis, the outlet said.
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The Bodies Were Discovered In a Span of 2 Days, But The Deaths May Have Happened Further Apart By the time authorities found Collins-Smith, they said her body had already begun to decompose, which made the identification process more difficult, according to the Arkansas Times.
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We're constantly reminded that we've produced millions of tons of plastic that will take 1,000 years to decompose and are clogging our oceans, so surely there's more than enough of this stuff on the planet already to make all of our products for the next century.
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But they are also easy to lose, often end up littering the pavements, where they take up to a year to decompose, and the magnetic strip on the back tends to fail over time, meaning the tickets, 550 million of which are sold each year, don't work.
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And the interesting question arises: if Puritanism was a necessary part of the work-ethos which enabled the industrialized world to break out of the poverty-stricken economies of the past, will the Puritan valuation of time begin to decompose as the pressures of poverty relax?
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Giving our bodies up to nature – in whatever way makes you happy and comfortable, so that can be not shaving or not being ashamed of your period or allowing your corpse to just decompose naturally or freely – I think those things are very much feminist acts.
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And while it's believed that expanded polystyrene and other extruded foam products will take about a million years to decompose, to use them as a source of forms doesn't necessarily implicate heavy industry any more than casting sculpture in bronze is a critique of foundry methods.
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And as hours went by after the mudslide and bodies began to decompose in the soggy heat, volunteers knew from dealing with the highly contagious Ebola virus that small measures — like wearing masks and gloves then safely disposing of them, to prevent the risk of waterborne disease — took on outsized significance.
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"We have a huge and growing inventory of timber in the forests, and they're going to decompose or burn, and nobody has addressed that," said Robert H. Nelson, a professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a former economic analyst for the Interior Department.
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Meer and West countered that when you add appropriate controls, the industries seeing slower job growth aren't weird or surprising; a recent paper by Doruk Cengiz using machine learning to decompose the employment effects that Meer and West discuss suggests they're mostly among higher-wage individuals, which bolsters Dube's critique.
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For more than a decade, Ms. Lawson has been trying to spread a wild meadow to replace the turf grass that originally encircled her 1970s home outside Baltimore, Md. This year's green leaves may help: In some scientific studies, the moister, green ones appeared to decompose faster than the dryer, brown ones.
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Based on the sheer size of the technosphere—30 trillion tons equates to roughly 110 pounds (50 kilos) of human-made crap per square meter—and that fact that many artificial structures don't decompose, we now have a new yardstick for understanding just how profoundly different the fossil record of modernity will look compared to the past.
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The designer, who was raised on her family's ranch in Uruguay, prioritizes quality over quantity and is passionate about using the finest materials without comprising her ethics — 99% of her materials are sustainable, even the label's packaging might look like regular plastic, but it's actually an eco-friendly alternative which will decompose naturally in 24 weeks.
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The cascading effects of not recycling enough — such as clogged trash chutes in public housing, garbage that must be trucked out of the city, and organic waste left to decompose and spew planet-warming methane gas — ultimately undermine ambitious targets the city and state enshrined in law last year to radically reduce contributions to climate change.
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The cascading effects of not recycling enough — such as clogged trash chutes in public housing, garbage that must be trucked out of the city, and organic waste left to decompose and spew planet-warming methane gas — ultimately undermine ambitious targets the city and state enshrined in law last year to radically reduce contributions to climate change.
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Today, we know Tito Ortiz as a once-great fighter whose title reign ended more than 103 years ago, who's forever assuring us that he's free of injuries before a fight and forever apologizing afterward because he cracked his skull, who lets fight-hype rhetoric decompose into word salad, and who once went 210-22012-240 over a span of six years.
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There are "hot spots" to click on, and one I activate prompts the voice to tell me that autopsies were typically carried out in winter when the bodies would decompose more slowly, and would begin with examining the major organs, but Rembrandt wanted to demonstrate the moment in the Dr. Tulp's lesson where he shows how the muscles in the arm control the movements of the fingers.
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Some of the factors are easy to identify: jurisdictional confusion between local state-run police, the FBI, and tribal or Bureau of Indian Affairs police departments routinely leads to slow response times; slow response times allow for bodies, and thus the perpetrator's DNA, to decompose and disappear; and slow response times lead to cold trails and dead-end cases, which make local law enforcement hesitant to undertake new cases.
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