Sentences with phrase «city garbage dump»
A park district consultant hired to analyze the radiation problem at the site - a former city garbage dump where dirt laced with thorium and radium was left a generation ago - has reported that the contamination is more than 12 times greater in volume than had been suspected.
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«This city brings in more money than any other in the country, and people live in a garbage dump.»
Yesterday we delivered our own garbage to the city dump because the city's crew refuses to drive up here.
It refers to the Valley of Gehinnom outside of the city of Jerusalem which, in the days of Jesus, was the garbage dump.
Sheol itself was a nebulous, dreary kingdom of the dead which got its name from either a place near Jerusalem where the Gentiles made human sacrifices or a garbage dump near the city (I have heard both theories).
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.
With massive urbanization bringing crowds of mostly unskilled rural workers to the city and a literal ring of garbage dumps...
While proper ways of disposing garbage remain a challenge in most areas, Blantyre City Council (BCC) feels that there is no excuse for dumping diapers on the streets and other undesignated places.
Disposable diapers make up a significant portion of a city's garbage dump and they take hundreds of years to decompose.
«The city wants a major garbage dump next to Asphalt Green, a playground and public housing,» the mailing reads.
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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.»
The New York City subway system is a filthy «garbage dump» full of emboldened rodents, a new report claims.
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.
That includes planning for a new $ 5 million fire station, a $ 4 million animal shelter and upgrades to the East Side transfer station where the entire city's garbage is dumped.
«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.»
Between 300 B.C. and A.D. 800, Egyptians in the city of Oxyrhynchus discarded books, scrolls, and other documents with their household garbage in a dump on the outskirts of town.
When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage - dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior - Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard - dog, Spots.
This leads the mayor (the voice of Kunichi Nomura) to whip up public fear so that he can deport all the city's dogs to a garbage dump, where they are forced to live on food scraps.
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.
The tale is set in a dystopian Japan and focuses on a group of dogs who are living on an island / garbage dump after the government banished them from the cities.
When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage - dump, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior - Turbo Prop and flies to Trash Island in search of his bodyguard - dog, Spots.
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.
In an unnamed Third World city, Rat, Raphael, and Gardo live with thousands of other kids in a garbage dump, where they dig for anything that could be profitable.
Lovely polysaccharide architectures being laid down within the interior channels, the gut and lungs, the heart and arteries and eyes and brain, the bacteria giving up their wild ways and becoming citified, recycling all; great garbage dump cities of bacteria, cheerfully ignorant of philosophy and history and the character of the dead hulks they now reclaimed.
We know them as garbage dumps, scrap yards, factories and cities.
These days New York's waste from those ubiquitous white garbage collection trucks is dumped onto the floor of waste transfer stations that are typically located in poor neighborhoods, and then loaded onto large trucks for shipment out of New York City.