Sentences with phrase «illegal disposal of waste»
The government says that although legislation is already in place in the UK to ensure that citizens and companies are held responsible for such crimes — ranging from those involving death or injury to the illegal disposal of waste — there is clearly a need to ensure that all member states effectively enforce environmental offences.
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Since the early Nineties, southern regions in Italy have experienced chronic issues of illegal disposal of urban waste, mainly due to easy access to uncultivated land, presence of caves and sovereignty of mafiosi — to use a general definition that encompasses mafia, camorra, «ndrangheta and other networks.
My assumption is that the mafia plays a decisive role in determining the destination of collected municipal waste in order to gain profit from illegal disposal, and that, by doing so, it behaves as a (bad) alternative provider of a public service.
Illegal dumping and poor disposal of toxic waste — including a large ships» graveyard in Mauritania — are among the chief suspects.
While acknowledging that «no wreck has yet been found that contains toxic or radioactive waste,» physicist Massimo Scalia of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, who has chaired two parliamentary commissions on illegal waste disposal, argues that other vidence makes their existence «beyond reasonable doubt.»
Processing and safely storing waste from the chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries can cost hundreds, even thousands, of dollars per ton — which makes illegal disposal highly profitable.
«The stench of corruption that always hangs over Venice grows disconcertingly literal when Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a case involving the illegal disposal of toxic waste.
And then there are the appliance choices, where now a remarkable 84 percent of homes have garbage disposal units, which are still illegal in many places, use up lots of water to flush away food and fat that clogs sewer pipes and then has to be removed at the sewage treatment plant, where stuff that might have been useful compost is now mixed with poop and waste and good for not much at all.