Sentences with phrase «from waste dumps»

A significant amount of that contamination comes from waste dumping by silver and gold mines.

Not exact matches

Most people would not spend much time thinking about Western Australia's waste issues aside from considering into which bins to dump their household rubbish and recycling.

But since Trump has been in office, the GOP has used the CRA more than a dozen times to roll back Obama - era rules and regulations, including one to protect broadband consumer privacy, one to curb bribery and corruption in the energy industry, and one to stop coal companies from dumping waste into streams and waterways.

According to experts, the possible cause of this mass mortality could be poisoning from chemical waste dumped into the bay from the drains.

Some 430,000 gallons of nuclear waste effluent have gradually leaked from a dump site at Hanford, Washington, threatening the ecology of the Columbia River system.

It wasn't a lot of cooking, just a lot of waste from all the methods I wasn't happy with and dumped the results of.

With bag - in - box packaging, Beso Del Sol's sustainable container also eliminates a large amount of restaurant waste, to the tune of thousands of glass wine bottles no longer being dumped by delivering a delicious, ready - to - drink sangria right from the start.

There are thousands of pages of fine detail to sort through, and we know much work remains, like banning other states» fracking waste from being dumped inside our borders,» said Water & Natural Resources Associate Liz Moran.

Wilson criticized Stefanik's environmental record, including for what she said was a vote to nullify the Stream Protection Rule, an Obama - era rule that sought to restrict coal companies from dumping waste into waterways.

(EANY) revealed that waste from other states is still being dumped in New York.

Productive environmental regulations have been made, such as the ban on hydrofracking in 2015 — though data collected by the Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY) revealed that waste from other states is still being dumped in New York.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced last week that it is seeking to recover cleanup costs for the Niagara Sanitation landfill from the companies and entities that dumped waste there 40 years ago.

State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, in an email to news media, said Friday that «we must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump.»

«We must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump,» Cahill, a Democrat who represents Dutchess and Ulster counties, said in a statement.

«The waste from all of the manufacturing in the village went to the «dump».

We've got all of the infrastructure for fracking up in New York State, even the waste from here is getting dumped up in New York State, permitted by our Governor, Governor Cuomo,» said Hawkins.

You recently voted for repeal of a rule, existing federal rule that was aimed at preventing coal mining waste from being dumped into streams and rivers.

The waste bed is owned by Allied's successor, Honeywell International Inc., and sits next to another waste bed (No. 13) where Honeywell recently dumped dredge material from Onondaga Lake.

Holocene thinking rests on the assumption that there is this big, inexhaustible alien space out there that we call the environment, from where we can get our raw materials and foods and where we can dump our waste.

«On a microscopic scale various layers of cement appear, and each one provides information on the moment when they precipitated, the conditions that existed, etc.» Secondly, they analysed the materials trapped in these cements where «we found foundry slag from the industrial revolution, even waste bearing the seals of European companies that used to dump their slag when they arrived with their vessels.

Holocene thinking rests on the assumption that there is this big, inexhaustible alien space out there that we call the environment, from where we can get our raw materials and food and where we can dump waste.

Environmental destruction — from smuggling elephant tusks to illegal dumping of toxic waste — generates as much as $ 213 billion annually for criminals and terrorists.

Ten miles from the Columbia river, in the treeless hills of Arlington, Oregon, a monumental dump for domestic waste has been carved out of farmland.

He found 72 toxic chemicals exuding from the hazardous waste sites, but 113 at dumps taking household waste.

China and other emerging economies have overtaken Western nations in dumping old electronic goods, from TVs to cellphones, and will lead a projected 33 percent surge in the amount of waste from 2012 to 2017, a U.N. - backed alliance said on Sunday.

Taken together, all types of environmental crime — from smuggling elephant tusks to China to illegal dumping of toxic waste — generates as much as $ 213 billion for unsavory characters around the world.

As a result, the runoff from hog farms dumps millions of tons of phosphorus - tainted waste into the soil.

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

Ramos» neighborhood is part of the Parker Street hazardous waste site, approximately 114 acres that include two schools, homes and commercial properties built atop fill contaminated with PCBs from an old municipal burn dump.

When scientists at the University of Delhi in India took soil samples from a pesticide dump and compared them with samples from a cleaner control site, they reported that the soil from the waste site contained a higher concentration of gene sequences from certain bacterial groups, such as Pseudomonas, Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas, that are known to degrade common pesticides like hexachlorocyclohexane.

Marine waters also receive wastes directly from offshore activities, such as ocean - based dumping (e.g., from ships and offshore oil and gas operations).

All too often, the beauty is sacrificed to allow for resource extraction — or waste disposal.This issue of Voices from the Earth provides some of the current examples of New Mexicans struggling to maintain the cultures, land, and communities in the face of various «development» or waste dumping projects.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

The industry found itself saddled with a waste problem, the leftover sludge from soy - oil manufacture which it could either dump or promote.

There are also no laws enacted to keep bottled water facilities away from industrial plants or waste dumps.

The inflammation from any internal imbalance needs a place to dump out excess waste and, unfortunately, our face is the place is ends up.

Whether you brewed this coffee from freshly ground beans or by using instant coffee powder, reduce waste and soak your oats with it instead of dumping it down the drain.

From high fashion to toxic waste dumping, this organization has its fingers in every pie available to them.

From the grayed - out countrysides over which the sky has closed like a lid; to the drizzly neon decadence of Los Angeles; to a San Diego refashioned as a waste dump worthy of Wall - E; to the Ozymandian wreckage of Las Vegas — the film is a splendor of the first order.

A rake cleans out the disposable tray thanks to an automatic timer (which has 3 settings to choose from), and dumps the waste right into a closed compartment.

A springer spaniel who was rescued from neglect nearly died — after eating mouldy waste thoughtlessly dumped on an allotment.

The STAYbowl Tip - Proof Bowl solves the problem of dumped and wasted kibble with a simple, ergonomic design that prevents small pets from tipping their food bowls.

Green Oak Technology Group, LLC STAYbowl Tip - Proof Bowl The STAYbowl Tip - Proof Bowl solves the problem of dumped and wasted food with a simple, ergonomic design that prevents small pets from tipping their bowls.

A scooping metal rake starts collecting the clumps from the litter box and dumps them into a waste container.

The Globe starts rotating, sifting clean litter from clumps and dumping the waste into a bottom drawer for later disposal.

Its practice of dumping tailings from the mine at sea and waste rock in the jungle has attracted considerable controversy.

Once we can get efficiency in sorting and separating different plastics from non recyclable wastes then this can be a profitable Gili Eco Trust recycling incentive whilst regaining a sustainable island and reducing the amount of rubbish going to the dump.

Since the 1950s Ogoniland has suffered extreme environmental damage and degradation from crude oil extraction and waste dumping by multi-national oil and gas companies.

It sucks up huge quantities of water from local rivers, turns it into toxic waste and dumps the contaminated water into tailing ponds that now cover nearly 70 square miles.»

He said: «Food waste makes up a significant proportion of the household waste we throw out each week, with over 70 % of the food waste dumped in landfills coming from households.