Sentences with phrase «as garbage dumps»

We know them as garbage dumps, scrap yards, factories and cities.

They also may sometimes feed on subsistence scavenged or stolen from campsites and picnics, as well as garbage dumps.

These gatherings tend to happen near large food sources such as garbage dumps and shopping centers.

«Our drinking water sources must be protected and preserved for the precious resources they are, not sacrificed as a garbage dump for the oil and gas industry.»

Once mining was finished, plans arose to use the open pit as a garbage dump.

«It is simply disgraceful that the wealthiest country in the world is using the developing world as its garbage dump.

Not exact matches

Just as you have to pay a fee to put your garbage in the dump, you have to pay a fee to put carbon in the air.

But as soon as you hear me — or any human teacher — expounding my own ideas, or my own thoughts, dump me faster than you dump your garbage.

sounds as appealing as eating a picnic beside a garbage dump.

It's as if you simply put forth effort cooking just to dump it in the garbage can.

As students were walking up to the garbage can to dump the remainder of their lunch, he told me, he would gather up the fruit of the day (I think it was whole apple and whole banana) to take home to eat.

The goals are «to educate New Yorkers on the dangers of this unnecessary garbage dump, to inform New Yorkers as to where NYC's next leaders stand on the issue and to urge them to make their voices heard,» a Pledge spokesman said.

Mr. Donovan was Mr. Molinari's point man when the borough president was negotiating the closure of the city's garbage dump, known as the Fresh Kills Land Fill, an effort that would make Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican mayor, a folk hero of sorts in the borough.

«These people, who I like to refer to as «city pigs,» act as if our sidewalks are their own personal garbage cans or dumping sites.»

The goals are «to educate New Yorkers on the dangers of this unnecessary garbage dump, to inform New Yorkers as to where NYC's next leaders stand on the issue and to urge them to make their voices heard,» a Pledge spokesman told DNAinfo.

Prior to that time, trash was dumped in unstructured landfills — Jambeck has vivid memories of growing up in rural Minnesota, dropping her family's garbage off at a small dump and watching bears wander through furniture, tires and debris as they looked for food.

«Plastics are very long - lived products that could potentially have service over decades, and yet our main use of these lightweight, inexpensive materials are as single - use items that will go to the garbage dump within a year, where they'll persist for centuries,» Richard Thompson, lead editor of the report, said in an interview.

Professor Rohani Ambo - Rappe of Hasanuddin University, Indonesia, a collaborator on the research stated: «Declining seagrass health is the result of shifting environmental conditions due largely to coastal development, land reclamation, and deforestation, as well as seaweed farming, overfishing and garbage dumping.

Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»

It's a comedy about the making of a movie as three filmmakers meet in Starbucks, call on their lead actress (played by Eugene Domingo as both herself and the character in the movie) and plan their poverty drama's shoot which will take place in a garbage dump.

Centering around a group of dogs who live on a remote island — due to an executive decree stating that all canine pets of Megasaki City must be exiled to a garbage dump known as Trash Island — Atari then ultimately finds himself in search of his lost pup, Spots.

It's an allegorical painterly Kabuki comedy that makes you laugh as you're gasping at the visual brilliance, each frame a new surprise while moved by the plight of canine exiles on an island garbage dump off the coast of Japan.

Using a public health initiative as an excuse, the corrupt mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura) has all the dogs in the city dumped onto nearby Trash Island, where they are forced to live with the rats amongst the garbage heaps.

But would you be surprised to discover that fully twice as many people a year visit a muddy, rocky cave on the site of a former garbage dump in a tiny town in France?

For that reason, Yukoner home owners need to secure their garbage or make frequent trips to the dump so as not to attract bears.

The very word «dumped» carries a heavy emotional charge in this context — we dump rubbish, we dump useless things — so dumping animals implies someone so lost to compassion that they treat animals as disposable, as garbage.

Resource subsidies, such as garbage or hunters» carcass dumps, can also support larger predator populations, leading to greater predation pressure.

Menzel describes the Canaan as shy, wild and independent, adapted to the conditions of the country, resistant to disease, adapted to the desert climate, noruished from garbage dumps and food remains on the outskirts of settlements, but also ready to form a relationship with man and easy to train.

Wayne describes the beaches of the remote island as a «garbage dump» as trade winds continually blow huge mounds of plastic debris on shore.

I did find that, as a Puyo player, I was being given quite an advantage against Tetris players, as only one or two chain combos were required to dump a slew of garbage blocks on to my opponent's screen.

Misty Keasler is a Dallas - based artist whose immersive photographic projects explore intriguing and probing subjects such as orphanages, Japanese love hotels, garbage dumps in developing countries, taxidermy, and her own familial roots.

With the support of a 2014 NACF Artist Fellowship, Naranjo Morse will work a vein of usable clay she found near the Santa Clara community garbage dump, while seeking found materials to reclaim as part of her current focus on sustainable living methods.

The first screening June 14 is of Waste Land, which follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Case in point: Lucy Walker's Waste Land, which follows Brooklyn artist Vik Muniz as he visits Brazil's Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump.

Gardiner Harris has a detailed story in The Times on what could be seen as New Delhi's race to outdo Beijing in the deadly flows of air pollution from its traffic, industries, garbage dumps and kitchens.

Negative interactions between polar bears and humans, such as bears foraging in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice - floe breakup occurred early and polar bears were relatively thin.

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).

Everything we eat has a water footprint, and as a recent Smithsonian Magazine article illustrates, when we waste food, it's like we're dumping huge amounts of water right into the garbage.

As is the co-winner of the first award given by Deutsche Bank, in Mumbai in 2007: a project to turn a former garbage dump into lively waterfront public spaces.

As obsolescence set in, stepwells were ignored by their communities, became garbage dumps and latrines, while others were repurposed as storage areas, mined for their stone, or just left to decaAs obsolescence set in, stepwells were ignored by their communities, became garbage dumps and latrines, while others were repurposed as storage areas, mined for their stone, or just left to decaas storage areas, mined for their stone, or just left to decay.

The other, perhaps most intriguing aspect of the project is that currently, sugar cane waste is just being dumped and treated as garbage.

At least for the last 50 years some «developing» countries have promoted investment in either dirty / high polluting industries and / or as places to dump garbage, radioactive waste, etc..

Voila, a professional pile - builder is born which can strategically wait until its various piles beckon here - and - there for attention as garbage mysteriously appears when signatory drivers inevitably dump stuff on a pre-existing contracted - for pile.

That personality type reminds me of a multitude of gulls screeching and fighting with one another as they descend on a garbage dump with each arrival of a garbage truck as it empties its load of gull - goodies.