Sentences with phrase «huge waste dump»
Even more silting, the researchers point out, was caused by the practice of using the harbor as a huge waste dump.
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So huge numbers of diapers, full of potentially infectious bacteria, are being dumped into our waste stream and posing potential health risks to sanitation workers and our public groundwater.
They built a huge nuclear industry, producing both bombs and electricity with unsafe reactors and sent the waste to leaky dumps and accident - prone reprocessing plants.
Take the burping tanks: huge sealed stainless vessels holding 4 million litres or more, into which chemical and radioactive wastes were dumped indiscriminately by the contractors who ran Hanford.
The Arbuckle is a tempting place to dump waste because it can easily absorb huge amounts of water without leaking into drinking water, said Skinner.
You can plough straight through the main quest line, explore anywhere you want in the large expanse of wasteland; dotted with old farms buildings, makeshift settlements, abandoned mines, and waste dumps or pick up any of the huge amount of side quests that will help fill out the storyline, not to mention your pockets.
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.»
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.
Proffessor Ross Garnaut then proceeds to earn huge quantities of money in PNG, living a dream while only filling the Fly River with pollution, the Bismark Sea being treated as a toxic dump and Lihir Island sea beds being smoothed by gold mining waste.
The fossil fuel power stations dump their wastes into the atmosphere at no cost to their operators, but huge cost to the environment.
We still don't get it right, building huge networks of pipes that dump everthing together into one pipe, when both bodily waste products are considerably more useful if kept separate.