Sentences with phrase «huge garbage dump»

The Earth, our home, seems to turn more and more into a huge garbage dump.

The silkscreen and acrylic works in the show combine Andy Warhol's factory aesthetic with reproductions of Böcklin's painting and BHQF's own adaptation of the allegorical scene — a veiled figure floats toward a huge garbage dump that obscures the Manhattan skyline.

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It sits in our tidy bins, finds its way to the larger garbage containers that some hardworking person, usually a man, has the good fortune to dump into a huge super-compacting truck where said item journeys to a HUMUNGOUS landfill to sit for anywhere from a few years to, much more commonly, a few centuries2.

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

In contrast, the «stone» Caesar starts with is made in a huge rectangular mold, which he filled with detritus scavenged from industrial dumps and urban garbage heaps: PVC pipes, shredded tires, carpet padding, fiberglass insulation, aluminum straps, broken glass and splintered plywood.

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.

So naturally there's a huge incentive for German wind park operators to dump the old contraptions onto third world countries, and to let them deal later with the garbage.