Sentences with phrase «build garbage dumps»

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When my friend Charlie told me the news, I was standing in a garbage dump outside Baghdad; we'd left the city because tanks presented an «aggressive posture» that ran counter to the new mission of nation - building.

City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin called the East 91st Street project «an outrageously expensive idea,» saying, «We can't afford this garbage dump and we shouldn't build it.»

«Isle Of Dogs may strand mangy, sickly pooches on a floating garbage dump, even putting their furry hides in danger for the sake of a dark joke or two, but the apparent cruelty masks a deeper affection — a belief in the pure, undying loyalty of the species, around which this deceptively dog - averse filmmaker builds a...

Then they walked to the West Rock site to remove invasive species, haul tons of illegally dumped garbage, and build a school from the ground up.

Not far from Tikal, in garbage dumps across the country, are the descendants of the Mayan kings who built these pyramids, young boys and girls working 12 hours a day to salvage recyclables that will pay for a meal, that will allow them to survive for another day, that will do nothing to break them out of the cycle of generational poverty.

By basing the levy on emissions rather than carbon all greenhouse gases stand on a common level, sequestration is strongly encouraged as well as such simple things as capturing methane from oil wells and garbage dumps (that gets built into the cost of disposal).

The Homeless Homes Project, which features tiny structures built out of illegally dumped garbage and industrial waste are becoming more than an environmental stance or garbage art.

According to the website, tiny house owners Brian Levy, Lee Pera, Jay Austin and Elaine have built their homes together on a triangular alley lot that once was populated with «overgrown grass, broken concrete, pooling water, garbage, illegal parking, and occasional criminal activity (e.g. a dumped stolen vehicle).»

You could get a $ 500 and / or jail time of up to 30 days if you» place, leave, dump or permit to accumulate any garbage, rubbish or trash in any building, vehicle and their surrounding areas in the town so that the same shall or may afford food or harborage for rats.»

We walked through a dump, where families had literally built shacks on top of mountains of garbage.